Ideal weather days in Phoenix
The best time to visit Phoenix for warm, dry weather is February to April and November to December, with 23 to 29 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Phoenix's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in February to April and November to December.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Phoenix, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too hot170
- Too cold22
- Too wet20
- Too windy0
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), Phoenix averaged 166 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 April (up to 21 a month, 90 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in December, January and February (up to 25 a month, 111 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too hot (over 33 °C): 170 a year, mostly in May to October. Another 22 are too cold (a high under 18 °C), mostly in January. A day can fail more than one test.
Phoenix weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 19 °C 65 °F | 3 | 0 | 23 | 17 of 31 |
| February | 23 °C 73 °F | 4 | 0 | 22 | 23 of 28 |
| March | 24 °C 75 °F | 5 | 0 | 23 | 25 of 31 |
| April | 31 °C 88 °F | 1 | 0 | 27 | 23 of 30 |
| May | 36 °C 96 °F | 0 | 0 | 30 | 9 of 31 |
| June | 40 °C 104 °F | 1 | 0 | 30 | 1 of 30 |
| July | 44 °C 110 °F | 1 | 0 | 30 | 0 of 31 |
| August | 42 °C 108 °F | 2 | 0 | 31 | 0 of 31 |
| September | 39 °C 102 °F | 2 | 0 | 30 | 0 of 30 |
| October | 35 °C 94 °F | 0 | 0 | 30 | 12 of 31 |
| November | 25 °C 77 °F | 2 | 0 | 27 | 28 of 30 |
| December | 22 °C 72 °F | 3 | 0 | 29 | 29 of 31 |
| Year | 24 | 0 | 330 | 166 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 159 warm, dry days
- 2024 163 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Phoenix for good weather?
The best time to visit Phoenix for warm, dry weather is February to April and November to December, with 23 to 29 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in April (up to 21 a month, 90 a year). Counted from measured days at Scottsdale Municipal Airport station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Phoenix?
On average 24 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was March (5 rain days), the driest October (0).
How many sunny days does Phoenix get a year?
About 330 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 (31).
How warm does Phoenix get?
The median daily high ranged from 19 °C (65 °F) in January to 44 °C (110 °F) in July.
Nearby
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- Salt Lake City 107 days
- Fairbanks 81 days
- Anchorage 55 days
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Where is the best climate in the United States?
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Source: Scottsdale Municipal Airport weather station (72278903192), 23 km from the centre of Phoenix, 436 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 87% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.