Climate averages 1991–2020

Federal Way weather
in June.

A mild, moderately wet month: the 4th warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 19.2°C Daytime mean, June
Average low 10.6°C Night-time mean, June
Rainfall 58 mm 9 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 16 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
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June is a mild month in Federal Way: daytime highs average 19.2°C and nights cool to about 10.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 58 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes June a moderately wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 52 min on an average June day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Auburn (7 km away). In June its highs average 19.7°C, about as warm as Federal Way, with 58 mm of rain.

Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Federal Way ranks joint 493rd of 498 for the warmest June highs and joint 179th of 498 for the driest June (rainfall, lowest first). The mean June high of those 498 cities is 27.9°C; Federal Way is 8.7°C cooler than that mean.

From June to July, average highs rise by 4.2°C to 23.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 58 mm to 21 mm.

The annual picture

June in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. -5051015202530 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 2500

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Federal Way climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Federal Way, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 6.8°C1.1°C1.1°C19018.28.99 h
February 8.1°C0.9°C0.9°C13515.010.210 h
March 10.3°C2.2°C2.2°C15217.811.912 h
April 12.9°C4.2°C4.2°C11815.813.614 h
May 16.7°C7.7°C7.7°C7811.915.115 h
June, selected 19.2°C10.6°C10.6°C589.215.916 h
July 23.4°C13.3°C13.3°C214.115.516 h
August 23.7°C13.6°C13.6°C284.514.314 h
September 20.3°C11.2°C11.2°C648.112.613 h
October 14.3°C7.2°C7.2°C13113.710.911 h
November 9.2°C3.5°C3.5°C20618.19.49 h
December 6.2°C1.1°C1.1°C19617.88.69 h

Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.

Compare places

June in nearby cities

Distance from Federal Way

Read the numbers correctly

Climate, not a promise.

These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.

Sources, method and limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Federal Way) is explained once on the Federal Way year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.

Auburn lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.