Ideal weather days in New Orleans
The best time to visit New Orleans for warm, dry weather is May and October, with 19 to 21 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at New Orleans's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in May and October.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in New Orleans, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too windy98
- Too wet82
- Too hot79
- Too cold38
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), New Orleans averaged 144 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 May to June and September to October (up to 19 a month, 114 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in February (up to 7 a month, 22 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are windy (mean wind over 20 km/h): 98 a year, mostly in October to April. Another 82 are wet (more than 1 mm of rain), mostly in January, June and July. A day can fail more than one test.
New Orleans weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 19 °C 65 °F | 10 | 14 | 12 | 8 of 31 |
| February | 22 °C 71 °F | 7 | 10 | 12 | 15 of 28 |
| March | 25 °C 76 °F | 7 | 13 | 13 | 15 of 31 |
| April | 27 °C 81 °F | 5 | 12 | 13 | 16 of 30 |
| May | 31 °C 88 °F | 8 | 5 | 13 | 19 of 31 |
| June | 34 °C 92 °F | 10 | 3 | 14 | 5 of 30 |
| July | 34 °C 93 °F | 15 | 0 | 19 | 3 of 31 |
| August | 35 °C 95 °F | 3 | 2 | 25 | 6 of 31 |
| September | 33 °C 91 °F | 8 | 6 | 21 | 12 of 30 |
| October | 29 °C 84 °F | 2 | 9 | 21 | 21 of 31 |
| November | 25 °C 76 °F | 9 | 14 | 11 | 13 of 30 |
| December | 19 °C 65 °F | 7 | 12 | 18 | 11 of 31 |
| Year | 89 | 98 | 192 | 144 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 149 warm, dry days
- 2024 130 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit New Orleans for good weather?
The best time to visit New Orleans for warm, dry weather is May and October, with 19 to 21 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in May to June and September to October (up to 19 a month, 114 a year). Counted from measured days at New Orleans Lakefront Airport station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in New Orleans?
On average 89 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was July (15 rain days), the driest October (2).
How many sunny days does New Orleans get a year?
About 192 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 August (25).
How warm does New Orleans get?
The median daily high ranged from 19 °C (65 °F) in January to 35 °C (95 °F) in August.
Nearby
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- Mérida1000 km, Mexico100 days
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- Denver 151 days
- Nashville 150 days
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- 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?
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Source: New Orleans Lakefront Airport weather station (72231553917), 12 km from the centre of New Orleans, 1 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.