Climate averages 1991–2020

Meads weather
in July.

A hot, wet month: the warmest and the 9th driest of the year.

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

Average high 29.6°C Daytime mean, July
Average low 20.4°C Night-time mean, July
Rainfall 109 mm 13 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 15 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
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July is a hot month in Meads: daytime highs average 29.6°C and nights cool to about 20.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.

Expect about 109 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes July a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 34 min on an average July day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Lexington (162 km away). In July its highs average 29.4°C, about as warm as Meads, with 105 mm of rain.

Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Meads ranks joint 279th of 498 for the warmest July highs and joint 425th of 498 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 498 cities is 30.3°C; Meads is 0.7°C cooler than that mean.

From July to August, average highs fall by 0.4°C to 29.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 109 mm to 84 mm.

The annual picture

July 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. -505101520253035 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 1500

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

Every month, side by side

Meads climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Meads, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 5.8°C-2.5°C-2.5°C9010.79.810 h
February 8.0°C-1.3°C-1.3°C9110.310.711 h
March 13.0°C2.7°C2.7°C11012.311.912 h
April 19.1°C8.3°C8.3°C10812.413.213 h
May 23.2°C13.5°C13.5°C11912.814.214 h
June 27.7°C18.2°C18.2°C11313.414.815 h
July, selected 29.6°C20.4°C20.4°C10913.214.615 h
August 29.2°C19.8°C19.8°C8411.613.714 h
September 25.9°C16.3°C16.3°C918.512.512 h
October 19.8°C10.2°C10.2°C808.811.211 h
November 13.0°C4.2°C4.2°C859.010.110 h
December 7.7°C0.1°C0.1°C9510.39.510 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

July in nearby cities

Distance from Meads

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 Meads) is explained once on the Meads year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.