LAS VEGAS · NEVADA · JUNE
The 1991-2020 normals put a June afternoon in Las Vegas at 99.4°F and the night that follows at 75.8°F, with 0.04 inch of rain for the whole month. A summer trip here gets planned around a clock rather than a forecast. What you do at 6 a.m. and what you do at 6 p.m. are two different vacations, and the hours in between belong to a pool, a long lunch or a room with the air conditioning turned up.
June also sits at a fork in the calendar. May ran 10.9°F cooler in the afternoon, July runs 5.1°F hotter and carries nearly ten times the rainfall. If you are still choosing a month rather than packing for one, the twelve-month view is in our best-time guide. If the choice is between four weeks earlier and four weeks later, the three-month table below settles it.
THE MONTH AT A GLANCE · LAS VEGAS · JUNE
June gives you near-dry skies, light until 8:01 p.m. and a pool that finally makes sense, and it takes away any comfortable way to walk the Strip between noon and five.
AVG HIGH 99.4°F · 0.04 IN OF RAIN · 14 H 40 MIN OF DAYLIGHT
Go for: pool afternoons, late dinners in daylight, and drives to Red Rock Canyon or Lake Mead in the cool hours between 5:21 a.m. and about 8:30.
Think twice before: booking a walking-heavy trip or midday hiking. June runs 10.9°F hotter by day than May, and 99.4°F is the average, not the peak.
Normals: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020, Las Vegas McCarran Airport station · Daylight: sunrise-sunset.org · full sources at the end
On this page
- June weather in Las Vegas99.4°F days, 0.04 inch of rain, 14 h 40 min of light
- How hot Las Vegas gets in JuneA 23.6°F swing from afternoon to dawn
- Crowds and hotel prices in JuneWhat we can price, and what we refuse to guess
- Things to do in Las Vegas in JuneRed Rock Canyon, Lake Mead, Fremont Street
- A two-day Las Vegas itinerary for JuneTwo days built around an 8:01 p.m. sunset
- June vs May and July in Las Vegas10.9°F hotter than May, 5.1°F cooler than July
- Is June a good time to visit?Yes for pools and late light, no for midday walking
Every figure here comes from one thermometer on the valley floor, at NOAA’s station at Las Vegas McCarran Airport. The open desert around the city and the Spring Mountains above it both run cooler after dark than that reading, so treat 75.8°F as the Strip’s night rather than the region’s. Sunrise and sunset times are local, converted from UTC.
Las Vegas weather in June: average highs, lows and rain days
| June normal | Value |
|---|---|
| Average high | 99.4°F (37.4°C) |
| Average low | 75.8°F (24.3°C) |
| Precipitation | 0.04 in |
| Days with 0.10 in or more | 0.1 |
| Days with 1 in or more | 0.0 |
| Daylight on June 15 | 14 h 40 min |
| Sunrise / sunset, June 15 | 5:21 a.m. / 8:01 p.m. |
NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information publishes the 1991-2020 monthly normals, and for June they read 99.4°F average high, 75.8°F average low and 0.04 inch of precipitation. That is a station record from a real instrument at Las Vegas McCarran Airport, station USW00023169, rather than a reanalysis of a grid cell, which is worth knowing when the number on your phone disagrees by a few degrees.
The normals count 0.1 days in an average June reaching at least 0.10 inch of precipitation, so a tenth-of-an-inch day turns up roughly one June in ten, and the tally of days reaching a full inch is 0.0. For a trip, that means an outdoor dinner reservation, a golf tee time or an evening drive can be booked weeks ahead without a rain plan behind it. Wind and blowing dust are not in this table, so keep pool plans flexible by hours, not days.
Afternoon and dawn stand 23.6°F apart, and both ends are warm. Pack for heat twice over: once for the sun, once for the air conditioning that runs all day inside casinos, malls and the airport, where one light long-sleeve layer earns its place in the bag. Cool nights exist above the valley, in the Spring Mountains and the open desert beyond the city, and an evening drive up there asks for a real jacket.
June 15 delivers 14 hours 40 minutes of daylight, with sunrise at 5:21 a.m. and sunset at 8:01 p.m. The useful part sits at the front of the day: the three hours after sunrise are the ones worth setting an alarm for, and they are over by 8:30. At the other end, light hangs on late enough that a 7 p.m. patio table or a walk downtown still happens in daylight.
How hot does Las Vegas get in June?
Averaged across the month, the hottest hour reads 99.4°F and the coolest 75.8°F, a spread of 23.6°F between mid-afternoon and the last hour before sunrise. Those are means, not ceilings. Individual days sit above and below them, and the normals describe the shape of a typical June rather than any particular one you will travel through.
Before 8 a.m. the air is in the seventies, and a loop at Red Rock Canyon or a long walk down the Strip works in shorts and a cap. By 2 p.m. the same outfit is a heat-management problem: shade, water, and a rule about how many minutes you spend between one indoor stop and the next. If you rent a car, treat the cabin as an oven at pickup and the steering wheel accordingly.
The average June low reads 75.8°F, more than forty degrees above freezing, so no frost appears anywhere in this month’s numbers. Our data set holds the monthly normals only, not the record extremes for the station, and no all-time high or low is quoted here for that reason. NOAA’s station page carries the records if you want them.
How busy is Las Vegas in June? Crowds, hotel prices and resort fees
School holidays start in June, and family trips take over from weekday business travel in a city whose hotel demand follows the convention calendar more than the thermometer. What we cannot hand you is a price ranking. Our data holds NOAA normals and daylight figures, not a monthly series of room rates or occupancy, so you will not read here that June is the cheapest or the priciest month of the year.
No lead time in weeks appears here either, for the same reason. Booking a Las Vegas hotel is driven by the night of the week and by what is filling the convention center, and both move year to year. The practical move: price the same room for two or three candidate weekends before you buy a flight, and read the twelve-month picture in our best-time guide.
Resort fees deserve a warning rather than a figure. If your hotel charges one, it is a nightly amount added on top of the room rate and disclosed during booking, but no June amount sits in our data set and we are not going to guess at one. Read the total with taxes and fees on the last screen before you pay, and check the parking line while you are there.
One upgrade genuinely changes this month, and it is whichever one cuts minutes spent outdoors between noon and 5 p.m.: a room on the stretch of the Strip you actually want to walk, or a rental car for the runs out to Red Rock Canyon, Hoover Dam and Lake Mead. If the budget stretches to only one, take the car, because the comfortable hours of a June day belong outside the city.
Things to do in Las Vegas in June
What June hands you that the months either side do not is a near-guarantee of a dry evening plus light until 8:01 p.m. July carries 0.38 inch of rain and one day in an average month reaching 0.10 inch, nearly ten times June’s 0.04 inch. Anything you plan outdoors after six, from a show on a rooftop to a lake sunset, has about as much weather risk as this calendar ever offers.
Red Rock Canyon’s scenic loop sits half an hour west of the Strip and works between the 5:21 a.m. sunrise and roughly 9 a.m. Hoover Dam and Lake Mead lie east, on open water and concrete with almost no shade. The Spring Mountains climb above the valley and hold cooler nights than the 75.8°F logged at the airport. Downtown, Fremont Street runs under a canopy, which makes it the walkable block when the afternoon reads 99.4°F. No admission price or opening hour for any of these is in our data set, so check each operator before you drive out.
The mountains and the lake stay where they are all year, and the air is what June changes: the same Red Rock loop that sits under an 88.5°F afternoon in May sits under 99.4°F four weeks later, a 10.9°F difference on exposed sandstone. For Lake Mead we hold no water temperature at all, so nothing here tells you how the swimming feels. Where we do publish a water figure on other pages, it is an average of daily maxima, a little warmer than a 24-hour mean.
On free entertainment, we have no fee schedule and no June show times, and both change with the season, so verify on the property’s own page rather than a listing site. What costs nothing and is guaranteed by the calendar is the light: 14 hours 40 minutes of it on June 15, with the first three of those cool enough to spend on foot at a viewpoint east of town.
Las Vegas in June: a two-day itinerary
Day one runs on the sun. Alarm at 5, on the Red Rock loop for the 5:21 a.m. sunrise, back at the hotel by 9:30 while the air climbs toward its 99.4°F average. Pool, lunch and anything indoors from 11 to 5. Out again at 6 for the Strip, with dinner timed so dessert lands near the 8:01 p.m. sunset. Total exposure to the worst of the heat: about ninety minutes, most of it between parking lot and lobby.
Day two goes east, to Hoover Dam and Lake Mead early, then downtown and the covered length of Fremont Street after dark. Since a tenth of an inch of rain falls in roughly one June out of ten, the contingency worth planning is heat and wind rather than weather. If the afternoon turns rough, swap the outdoor half for museums and the indoor side of the Strip, and push the walking to 7 p.m., when an hour of daylight is still left.
Las Vegas in June vs May and July
| Normal | May | June | July |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 88.5°F | 99.4°F | 104.5°F |
| Average low | 66.1°F | 75.8°F | 82.0°F |
| Precipitation | 0.07 in | 0.04 in | 0.38 in |
| Days with 0.10 in or more | 0.2 | 0.1 | 1.0 |
May averages 88.5°F by day and 66.1°F at night, June 99.4°F and 75.8°F, July 104.5°F and 82.0°F. Rain does not follow the heat in a straight line: May measures 0.07 inch, June 0.04, July 0.38 with a full day reaching 0.10 inch. There is no coast here, and our data set carries no water temperature for Lake Mead, so the three-month comparison rests on air, rain and daylight.
Move four weeks earlier and you gain a night that falls to 66.1°F, cool enough to walk the Strip end to end after dinner, and you give up the solstice light that June 15 already carries at 14 hours 40 minutes. Move four weeks later and you pay 5.1°F on the afternoon, 6.2°F on the night, and take on July’s 0.38 inch of rain. For a family week built on a pool and a late sunset, June is the middle option.
Is June a good time to visit Las Vegas?
For pool trips, late dinners, shows and drives that start before breakfast, June works well. For anyone who came to hike at midday, walk the Strip end to end in the afternoon, or keep small children outdoors between noon and 5 p.m., it does not, and 99.4°F is the average rather than the peak. Travelers who wilt in heat should read that number as a hard constraint on the itinerary.
If that describes your trip, book May instead. The average afternoon drops to 88.5°F and the night to 66.1°F, rainfall stays near nothing at 0.07 inch, and the same drives out to Red Rock and Lake Mead run without a 5 a.m. alarm. The detail is in our May page, and the full-year ranking sits in the best-time guide.
What June offers that neither neighbor matches is 0.04 inch of rain, the lowest of the three months here, paired with 14 hours 40 minutes of daylight.
The last word
Book the room for its walking distance, set the alarm for 5 a.m. at least once, and hand noon to five over to the pool. The normals record 0.0 days in June reaching a full inch of rain, and that is the part first-timers misread: a Las Vegas trip in June does not get rained out, it gets heat-limited, and those are two different packing lists. Bring the hat, the electrolyte tablets and one long-sleeve layer for the air conditioning.
Sources & data for this guide
- June normals, 99.4°F high, 75.8°F low, 0.04 in of precipitation · NOAA NCEI monthly normals 1991-2020, station USW00023169, Las Vegas McCarran Airport · checked Sep 15, 2026
- Rain-day counts, 0.1 day at 0.10 in or more and 0.0 day at 1 in or more · same NOAA NCEI normals · checked Sep 15, 2026
- May and July normals used in the comparison table · NOAA NCEI monthly normals 1991-2020, same station · checked Sep 15, 2026
- Daylight of 14 h 40 min, sunrise 5:21 a.m. and sunset 8:01 p.m. on June 15 · sunrise-sunset.org, converted from UTC to local time · checked Sep 15, 2026
- Editorial admission: we hold no hotel-rate series, no resort-fee amount and no Lake Mead water temperature for June, so none of those is given a figure here. Where a water temperature appears on our other pages, it is an average of daily maxima, slightly warmer than a 24-hour mean.
- Admission prices, show times and opening hours change · check each operator when you book.