Weather in New York - 7-day forecast, rain, wind

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Climate in New York

New York has a humid continental climate with maritime influence, producing four very marked seasons. Summers are hot and humid (average highs of 29 degrees Celsius) and winters cold with frequent snow (average lows of minus 2).

Annual rainfall is around 1,200 mm, spread across the year. Summer convective storms are common, and autumn remnants of tropical cyclones (such as Sandy in 2012 or Ida in 2021) can cause severe flooding.

Winter storms or noreasters bring heavy snowfall and strong winds from the Atlantic, closing JFK and disrupting the subway. The urban heat island is pronounced in Manhattan.

Best time to visit is spring (April-May) and autumn (September-October). Use the hourly forecast, snow or tropical storm alerts and air quality before planning Central Park, Times Square or Liberty Island.

The climate of New York, with thirty years of data

New York has a climate of extremes that surprises anyone who files it mentally alongside the European capitals at its latitude. With no mountain barrier to the west, continental air arrives directly: winters with heavy snowfall and cold snaps, summers hot and very humid. In autumn there are also the remains of hurricanes tracking up the Atlantic coast to reckon with.

The year at a glance

The warmest month is July, with a mean maximum of 29.0 °C, and the coldest January, with minima averaging -3.6 °C. About 1147 mm fall a year, spread over 124 days of appreciable rain, peaking in July and at its lowest in November. There are 84 days of frost a year and 27 with the maximum above 30 °C.

Month by month

Monthly means over 30 years at New York. ERA5-Land reanalysis, 1995 to 2024.
Monthly mean	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Maximum (°C)	3.9	5.2	9.7	15.7	21.0	26.0	29.0	28.0	24.2	18.1	11.8	6.5
Minimum (°C)	-3.6	-3.4	0.4	6.0	11.6	17.1	20.4	19.9	16.4	10.4	4.3	-0.4
Rain (mm)	89	81	104	96	91	103	105	99	98	105	76	100
Rain days	10.1	9.1	10.2	11.2	11.8	12.2	12.0	11.5	9.0	9.0	8.1	10.0

The extremes of the series

Across these 30 years the highest temperature was 38.7 °C, on 22 July 2011, and the lowest -23.7 °C, on 5 February 1996. These are reanalysis values, not those of an observatory: they are useful for placing the magnitude, not as an official record.

Where these numbers come from

From ERA5-Land, the reanalysis produced by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, downloaded from the Copernicus Climate Data Store under a CC-BY licence: hourly temperature and precipitation between 1995-01-01 and 2024-12-06, 30 complete years, in the 40.70°, -74.00° cell. It is a grid of about 9 km covering land only.

The Spanish cities on this site use AEMET’s official normals; there is no single equivalent for ten different countries, so the same global series is used for all of them. That has an advantage: the figures are comparable with one another, computed by the same method over the same period. And a limitation: a reanalysis cannot see the urban heat island, so in the centre of a large city the real minima are usually somewhat higher than those in the table.