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Portland weather by month

Portland runs from about 4°C in January to 22°C in July, with January the wettest month at 323 mm.

warmest month

July

22°C

coolest month

January

4°C

wettest month

January

323 mm

worst air month

November

12 µg/m³

The whole year, month by month.

Monthly climate normals for Portland
MonthAvg tempRainSunPM2.5
January4°C323 mm89 h11
February6°C172 mm159 h10
March7°C135 mm230 h9
April10°C80 mm254 h8
May12°C104 mm328 h7
June17°C47 mm350 h6
July22°C7 mm423 h5
August20°C18 mm357 h7
September18°C46 mm300 h10
October12°C155 mm224 h9
November7°C276 mm130 h12
December6°C269 mm121 h8

About 2,965 hours of sun a year. Roughly 163 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.