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LAS VEGAS · OCTOBER · THE MONTH GUIDE October takes 13.7°F off the Las Vegas day. The normal high at the airport falls from September’s 94.9°F to 81.2°F, and the normal low from 72.4°F to 59.6°F. That is the difference between walking two blocks of the Strip as an endurance test and walking it because … Read more
LAS VEGAS · SEPTEMBER · 36.08° N September is the month the Las Vegas thermometer starts giving ground. The 1991-2020 normals from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information put the average high at 94.9°F and the average low at 72.4°F, measured at Las Vegas McCarran Airport on the valley floor. August, at the same station, … Read more
LAS VEGAS · APRIL · 36.1° N April hands the desert back to visitors. The 1991-2020 normal high in Las Vegas is 78.5°F, the normal low 56.9°F, and total rainfall for the month comes to 0.20 inches. On the 15th the sun sets at 7:16 p.m., which leaves room for a canyon morning, a slow … Read more
LAS VEGAS · NEVADA · JULY July is the valley at full output. The airport thermometer averages 104.5°F in the afternoon and 82.0°F at its coolest hour, the sun is up for 14 hours 25 minutes on the 15th, and the whole month’s rainfall adds up to 0.38 inches. Those four numbers reorganize a Las … Read more
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 … Read more
HONOLULU · NOVEMBER · 21.3° N November takes about three degrees off October in Honolulu and adds three quarters of an inch of rain. The airport normals put the month at 84.1°F by day and 71.8°F before dawn, with 2.25 inches of precipitation falling on a handful of days. None of that reads as winter. … Read more
