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Taos weather by month

Taos runs from about -4°C in January to 20°C in June, with February the wettest month at 51 mm.

warmest month

June

20°C

coolest month

January

-4°C

wettest month

February

51 mm

worst air month

January

6 µg/m³

The whole year, month by month.

Monthly climate normals for Taos
MonthAvg tempRainSunPM2.5
January-4°C30 mm248 h6
February-2°C51 mm258 h5
March2°C41 mm321 h4
April8°C23 mm362 h3
May13°C37 mm410 h4
June20°C17 mm382 h4
July20°C20 mm415 h6
August20°C37 mm374 h5
September16°C43 mm352 h4
October12°C27 mm331 h3
November2°C41 mm242 h4
December2°C3 mm287 h6

About 3,982 hours of sun a year. Roughly 37 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 2026-05-25. Full method, licences and the list of sources we rejected are on the methodology page.