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Cleveland weather by month

Cleveland runs from about -1°C in January to 23°C in July, with August the wettest month at 150 mm.

warmest month

July

23°C

coolest month

January

-1°C

wettest month

August

150 mm

worst air month

February

12 µg/m³

The whole year, month by month.

Monthly climate normals for Cleveland
MonthAvg tempRainSunPM2.5
January-1°C112 mm91 h7
February2°C28 mm232 h12
March4°C71 mm224 h9
April10°C129 mm282 h9
May16°C95 mm351 h8
June21°C115 mm361 h7
July23°C84 mm389 h12
August22°C150 mm363 h11
September20°C75 mm284 h10
October15°C85 mm298 h5
November9°C99 mm151 h6
December2°C133 mm107 h7

About 3,133 hours of sun a year. Roughly 119 rainy days a year.

These are long-run climate normals, not a forecast. A given year can sit well outside them. PM2.5 is a global model: near the coast it counts sea salt as fine particulate and reads high against ground stations, sometimes by a factor of two. Use the shape of the year, not the absolute number.

where these numbers come from

  • · Temperature, rainfall and sunshine: ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis climate normals via Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0), fetched once and stored.
  • · PM2.5: Copernicus CAMS reanalysis, monthly means. Modelled, not station readings; near coasts CAMS counts sea salt as PM2.5 and reads high.

Last reviewed 2026-05-23. Full method, licences and the list of sources we rejected are on the methodology page.