WEATHER · CLIMATE NORMALS · 1991–2020

Kingston Climate — Averages by Month

What the weather in Kingston, JMaverages across a standard 30-year period. Each month's figure is the 1991–2020 mean temperature and total rainfall from the ERA5 reanalysis — the long-run normal a place settles around, not a forecast for any particular day.

1991–2020 NORMALS
Warmest month: Aug · 26.9 °C
Coldest month: Feb · 23.8 °C
Wettest month: Oct · 158.2 mm
Annual mean temperature: 25.4 °C
Annual rainfall: 958 mm
Years averaged: 30 (1991–2020)
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Month-by-month normals

MonthAvg temperatureAvg rainfall
January23.9 °C38.6 mm
February23.8 °C · coldest31.8 mm
March24.1 °C45.0 mm
April24.9 °C47.5 mm
May25.6 °C114.0 mm
June26.4 °C83.8 mm
July26.8 °C63.7 mm
August26.9 °C · warmest93.5 mm
September26.6 °C135.5 mm
October25.9 °C158.2 mm · wettest
November25.3 °C92.1 mm
December24.5 °C54.7 mm

How to read these numbers

These are reanalysis normals, not readings from a single weather station. They come from the ERA5 0.25° (~25 km) global reanalysis grid, sampled at the grid cell nearest Kingston — centred at 18.00°N, 76.75°W. A reanalysis blends observations with a physics model onto an even grid, so a coastal or mountain city's cell can read a little cooler, warmer, wetter or drier than the city centre itself. The month-to-month shape — when it's hot, when it rains — is what these normals capture best.

“Normal” means the 1991–2020 average, the current World Meteorological Organization standard period. A normal is what a place tends toward over decades — any single day, month or year can and will depart from it.