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Hartford weather by month

Hartford runs from about -1°C in January to 24°C in July, with March the wettest month at 207 mm.

warmest month

July

24°C

coolest month

January

-1°C

wettest month

March

207 mm

worst air month

February

14 µg/m³

The whole year, month by month.

Monthly climate normals for Hartford
MonthAvg tempRainSunPM2.5
January-1°C170 mm146 h10
February0°C45 mm226 h14
March6°C207 mm235 h11
April9°C138 mm245 h9
May16°C105 mm303 h9
June22°C88 mm352 h10
July24°C126 mm342 h12
August22°C109 mm327 h14
September18°C25 mm274 h10
October13°C15 mm296 h6
November8°C57 mm222 h8
December0°C100 mm192 h8

About 3,160 hours of sun a year. Roughly 122 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 2026-05-24. Full method, licences and the list of sources we rejected are on the methodology page.