Weather in Portland, month by month
- Warmest month
- August, 19.3
- Coldest month
- January, -1.3
- Wettest month
- October, 145 mm
- Year
- 2001-2020
Same data, same method, different place.
Your own numbers, worked out on the page.
Across the 2001-2020 normals, the warmest month in Portland is August at 19.3 degrees and the coldest is January at -1.3, a swing of 20.6 degrees over the year. Those are monthly averages for the model cell the city sits in, not readings from a weather station in it.
Rain is heaviest in October, about 145 mm, and lightest in August at roughly 94 mm. Over a full year the cell above Portland collects around 1,362 mm.
The months whose average sits between 15 and 24 degrees are July, August and September. That band is this page's own definition of mild and is stated so you can disagree with it rather than guess at it.
Humidity peaks in June at 88 percent, and the windiest month is January at 5.1 metres per second. Both are monthly means from the same twenty year series as the temperatures.
Rainfall is not spread evenly: 53 per cent of the year total falls in October, November, December, January, February and March.
2 months average below freezing: January and February.
Every figure here comes from one NASA POWER grid cell, at 43.66, -70.26, covering Portland on the 2001-2020 climatology. One cell, one period and one provider for every month, which is what makes the twelve rows comparable with each other.
The source publishes a monthly mean and, separately, the highest and lowest values it recorded in twenty years. Those extremes are not a typical afternoon or a typical night, so nothing here is quoted as one. This page does not say what the daytime high usually is, because this source cannot say it.
Normals are not a forecast. They describe what twenty years averaged to, and any single year can sit well outside them. They also describe a model grid cell of roughly fifty kilometres rather than a weather station, so a coastal city and the sea beside it share one figure.
Weather in Portland, month by month
| Month | Mean temperature | Rainfall | Humidity |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | -1.3 | 103 mm | 85% |
| February | -1.1 | 103 mm | 83% |
| March | 1.4 | 110 mm | 81% |
| April | 5.7 | 121 mm | 83% |
| May | 10.2 | 101 mm | 87% |
| June | 15 | 127 mm | 88% |
| July | 18.8 | 96 mm | 88% |
| August | 19.3 | 94 mm | 86% |
| September | 16.4 | 97 mm | 83% |
| October | 11.5 | 145 mm | 81% |
| November | 6.5 | 125 mm | 81% |
| December | 2 | 141 mm | 83% |
Questions
What is the warmest month in Portland?
August, on the 2001-2020 monthly averages.
What is the coldest month in Portland?
January, on the same twenty year series.
When does it rain most in Portland?
October carries the highest monthly total in the 2001-2020 normals.
Same data, same method, different place.
Your own numbers, worked out on the page.
Related pages
Sources
- NASA POWER, https://power.larc.nasa.gov/api/temporal/climatology/point (CC BY 4.0; 'There are no restrictions on the use, access, and/or download of data from the NASA POWER Project' (AWS Open Data Registry entry))