Ideal weather days in Atlanta
The best time to visit Atlanta for warm, dry weather is October, with about 27 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Atlanta's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in October.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
Open the full map Zoom with ctrl or ⌘ and scroll.Move and zoom with two fingers.
Your ideal days in Atlanta, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too wet90
- Too cold63
- Too hot60
- Too windy31
A day can fail more than one test.
Warm and dry, beach and mild days
With the Warm & dry preset (a high of 18–33 °C, no more than 1 mm of rain, wind under 20 km/h), Atlanta averaged 168 days a year in 2023–2025. Every number here is counted from real measured days in the United States, not from climate averages.
Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in June and October (up to 14 a month, 66 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in February and November (up to 10 a month, 48 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are wet (more than 1 mm of rain): 90 a year, mostly in January to August and November. Another 63 are too cold (a high under 18 °C), mostly in December and January. A day can fail more than one test.
Atlanta weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 15 °C 58 °F | 12 | 5 | 12 | 3 of 31 |
| February | 20 °C 68 °F | 9 | 4 | 10 | 14 of 28 |
| March | 24 °C 75 °F | 9 | 4 | 13 | 19 of 31 |
| April | 26 °C 79 °F | 9 | 4 | 10 | 20 of 30 |
| May | 29 °C 84 °F | 11 | 2 | 3 | 19 of 31 |
| June | 32 °C 90 °F | 10 | 0 | 4 | 14 of 30 |
| July | 34 °C 93 °F | 9 | 0 | 2 | 3 of 31 |
| August | 34 °C 92 °F | 10 | 1 | 4 | 9 of 31 |
| September | 30 °C 86 °F | 8 | 4 | 2 | 16 of 30 |
| October | 27 °C 80 °F | 2 | 3 | 15 | 27 of 31 |
| November | 21 °C 70 °F | 7 | 2 | 13 | 18 of 30 |
| December | 16 °C 60 °F | 8 | 3 | 12 | 6 of 31 |
| Year | 101 | 31 | 99 | 168 of 365 |
Typical high is the median daily maximum. A rain day has 1 mm or more; a windy day a mean wind above 20 km/h; a clear day a daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average (9:00–17:00). Days are averaged over 2023–2025 and scaled to the length of each month.
Year by year
- 2023 171 warm, dry days
- 2024 168 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Atlanta for good weather?
The best time to visit Atlanta for warm, dry weather is October, with about 27 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in June and October (up to 14 a month, 66 a year). Counted from measured days at Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson International Airport station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Atlanta?
On average 101 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was January (12 rain days), the driest October (2).
How many sunny days does Atlanta get a year?
About 99 days a year had mostly clear skies (daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average, 9:00–17:00), most of them in October (15).
How warm does Atlanta get?
The median daily high ranged from 15 °C (58 °F) in January to 34 °C (93 °F) in July.
Nearby
- Nashville350 km150 days
- Charlotte360 km177 days
- Orlando650 km203 days
- Tampa670 km194 days
- New Orleans680 km144 days
- Miami980 km181 days
More cities in the United States
- San Diego 317 days
- Tijuana 311 days
- Los Angeles 296 days
- Honolulu 224 days
- Sacramento 169 days
- Phoenix 166 days
- San Francisco 162 days
- San Antonio 157 days
- Denver 151 days
- St. Louis 143 days
- Seattle 142 days
- Houston 141 days
- Kansas City 135 days
- Austin 134 days
- Albuquerque 132 days
- Detroit 131 days
- Dallas 129 days
- New York 129 days
- Las Vegas 126 days
- Chicago 120 days
- Minneapolis 120 days
- Boise 117 days
- Billings 116 days
- Boston 116 days
- Salt Lake City 107 days
- Fairbanks 81 days
- Anchorage 55 days
- Juneau 45 days
Where is the best climate in the United States?
Open Atlanta on the map Set your own temperature, rain and wind limits.
Source: Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson International Airport weather station (72219013874), 14 km from the centre of Atlanta, 308 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 89% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.