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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
LAS VEGAS · MAY · 36.1° N Las Vegas in May averages an 88.5°F high and a 66.1°F low, with 0.07 inches of rain across the whole month. That is the last comfortable stretch before June arrives at 99.4°F and pushes everything outdoors into the hour after sunrise. May is the month people book when … Read more
LAS VEGAS · MARCH · THE MONTH GUIDE March is when Las Vegas gets its afternoons back. The normal high at the airport thermometer reaches 71.1°F, up from 62.9°F in February, and the normal low sits at 50.5°F. Rain stays close to a rounding error: 0.42 inches for the whole month, landing on 1.3 days … Read more
LAS VEGAS · FEBRUARY · 36.1° N Las Vegas wears shirtsleeves at two in the afternoon in February and a winter coat by seven. NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, working from the gauge at Harry Reid International on the valley floor, puts the 1991-2020 February normals at a 62.9°F average high and a 44.1°F … Read more
LAS VEGAS · JANUARY · 36.08° N Las Vegas in January is a daytime city. The airport thermometer averages 58.5°F in the afternoon and 40.5°F before dawn, the sun quits at 4:50 pm, and the desert an hour from the Strip turns walkable in a way it never is in July. Every January trip here … Read more
LAS VEGAS · THE 12-MONTH VERDICT · 36.1° N Las Vegas is sold as a city without weather, which works right up to the moment you cross a parking lot in July. The airport’s average high that month is 104.5°F. In December it is 56.9°F. That 47.6°F swing decides more about a trip here than … Read more
