Climate and average weather in Avondale

In Avondale, the summers are sweltering, fairly dry, and mostly clear and the winters are mild and mostly clear.

Best: late October to mid April

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Avondale typically varies from 43°F to 105°F, and is rarely below 35°F or above 111°F. July is the hottest month of the year, while December is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Avondale for warm-weather activities is from late October to mid April.

Hottest
Jul
105°
Coldest
Dec
43°
Wettest
Feb
1.3 in
Driest
Jun
0.1 in
Rain / yr
8.7 in
29 wet days
Daylight
9.8–14.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
974 ft
33.4°N
Clearest
Jun
13% cloud

Avondale is city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States.

Density
687/km²
people per km²

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Avondale weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around late October to mid April.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Avondale, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 4.2 months, from May 24 to September 28, with daily high temperatures above 95°F. The hottest month of the year in Avondale is July, with an average high of 105°F and low of 83°F.

The cool season lasts 3.2 months, from November 23 to February 28, with daily high temperatures below 72°F. The coldest month of the year in Avondale is December, with an average low of 43°F and high of 65°F.

Days typically run about 24°F warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 26°F) in June.

40°60°80°100°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°F)Avg low (°F)
Jan6643
Feb7046
Mar7752
Apr8558
May9468
Jun10376
Jul10583
Aug10483
Sep9976
Oct8863
Nov7551
Dec6543

How hot and cold Avondale really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the hottest afternoons, once humidity is folded in, Avondale feels like about 106°F (around June 29). About 166 days a year carry some heat stress, and 81 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 102°F), peaking in June.

40°60°80°100°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°F)Air high (°F)Feels-like low (°F)Air low (°F)
Jan66664143
Feb70704446
Mar77775152
Apr85855958
May94946868
Jun1031037676
Jul1061058383
Aug1041048383
Sep99997676
Oct88886363
Nov75755051
Dec65654143

Average hourly temperature in Avondale

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on July afternoons, near 105°F, and coldest before dawn in December, near 43°F.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Avondale weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°F)Rainfall (inches)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan66° / 43°1.13.4107.5
Feb70° / 46°1.33.910.87.7
Mar77° / 52°0.92.711.78.4
Apr85° / 58°0.31.212.87.0
May94° / 68°0.10.813.73.8
Jun103° / 76°0.10.314.20.6
Jul105° / 83°0.73.2140.0
Aug104° / 83°1.1413.20.2
Sep99° / 76°0.92.912.21.9
Oct88° / 63°0.71.911.25.8
Nov75° / 51°0.6210.38.6
Dec65° / 43°1.03.29.87.3

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Avondale gets about 8.7 in of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is mostly dry, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 3.6 months, from around Nov 29 to Mar 19, peaking in February at about 15% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jun 6.

February is the wettest month by volume, with 1.3 in over about 4 wet days; June is the driest, with 0.1 in.

0%10%20%30%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainFeb 17 · 15%Jun 6 · 1%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan113
Feb134
Mar93
Apr41
May31
Jun20
Jul103
Aug134
Sep103
Oct62
Nov72
Dec113

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Avondale collects about 8.7 in of rain across 29 wet days — roughly 0.7 in in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. February is the wettest month with 1.3 in, while June is the driest at just 0.1 in. The three wettest months alone bring about 39% of the year’s total.

00.511.5JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec1.11.30.90.30.10.10.71.10.90.70.61.0
Rainfall (in)Rain days
Jan1.13
Feb1.34
Mar0.93
Apr0.31
May0.11
Jun0.10
Jul0.73
Aug1.14
Sep0.93
Oct0.72
Nov0.62
Dec1.03

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Avondale, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows moderate seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around April 9 and lasts for 3.3 months, ending around July 17. The clearest month is June, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 92% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around November 15 and lasts for 4.8 months, ending around April 8. The cloudiest month is February, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 32% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJun 17 · 94%Feb 19 · 65%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7129
Feb6832
Mar7327
Apr8317
May8614
Jun928
Jul8218
Aug8416
Sep9010
Oct8812
Nov8020
Dec7129

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around June 10, brings about 14 h 12 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 9 h 48 min — a swing of roughly 4 h 24 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan10.07:385:39
Feb10.87:216:07
Mar11.76:476:31
Apr12.86:056:55
May13.75:347:17
Jun14.25:247:36
Jul14.05:357:35
Aug13.25:567:11
Sep12.26:186:30
Oct11.26:405:49
Nov10.37:075:22
Dec9.87:325:19

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Avondale averages about 21 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 16 and 27 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 2.9 months, from around Apr 12 to Jul 8. The sunniest month is June, with roughly 26 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is February, down near 17 sunny days — about 36% fewer than the June peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJun 1627 daysFeb 2116 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan18Bright
Feb15Bright
Mar19Bright
Apr21Bright
May24Brilliant
Jun26Brilliant
Jul20Bright
Aug21Bright
Sep24Brilliant
Oct24Brilliant
Nov21Bright
Dec18Bright

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Avondale, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.1 months, from around June 28 to September 30. The muggiest month is August, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 42% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 1 to June 27, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 100% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 15 · 100%Aug 23 · 55%muggyhumiddrycomfortablecomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan1000000
Feb1000000
Mar1000000
Apr1000000
May991000
Jun944210
Jul521915104
Aug332424135
Sep62151292
Oct935210
Nov991000
Dec1000000

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Wind in Avondale is steady company: average speeds sit near 5 mphcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeApr 28 · 6 mphJan 1 · 4 mph
Wind speed (mph)Feels
Jan4calm
Feb4calm
Mar5calm
Apr6calm
May6calm
Jun5calm
Jul5calm
Aug4calm
Sep5calm
Oct4calm
Nov4calm
Dec4calm

Best time to visit Avondale

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Avondale throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around early April, Avondale is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 64°F and 82°F. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Avondale for general outdoor tourist activities is from late October to mid April, with a peak score in the third week of November.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationNov 15 · 8.8

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan7.5good
Feb7.8ideal
Mar8.3ideal
Apr7.0good
May3.8fair
Jun0.7poor
Jul0.0poor
Aug0.2poor
Sep1.9poor
Oct5.7good
Nov8.5ideal
Dec7.3good

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 75°F and 93°F. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Avondale for hot-weather activities run from mid March to late May and again from early October to mid November, with a peak score in the third week of April.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationApr 16 · 8.9

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Avondale, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

For a warm-season trip around July (highs near 105°F), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around December (highs near 65°F), pack a warm layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Avondale sees daytime highs around 105°F and nights near 83°F. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 3 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Avondale by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Avondale peaks around June 23 at about 11 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 20 at about 3 (moderate).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 11 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighVery highExtremeVery highHighModerateJun 23UV 11Dec 20UV 3
UV index (midday)Level
Jan3Moderate
Feb5Moderate
Mar4Moderate
Apr7High
May9Very high
Jun11Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug11Extreme
Sep9Very high
Oct6High
Nov4Moderate
Dec3Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Avondale

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in June the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 9 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan2.50
Feb4.50
Mar4.50
Apr73
May85
Jun96
Jul8.56
Aug85.5
Sep74.5
Oct5.51
Nov40
Dec00

Air quality in Avondale by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Avondale is worst in June — around 17 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 1.9× the cleanest month (December, 9 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

01020JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodGoodJun 1917 µg/m³Dec 149 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan10Good
Feb11Good
Mar11Good
Apr12Moderate
May12Moderate
Jun17Moderate
Jul15Moderate
Aug12Good
Sep11Good
Oct13Moderate
Nov10Good
Dec9Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Avondale is frost-free year round — even the coldest nights rarely reach freezing, so there is no start or end to the growing season.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecfrost-free year round
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan980
Feb990
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec970

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 50°F)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 50°F: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Avondale banks about 8,759 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

02,0004,0006,0008,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°F·days)
Jan149
Feb231
Mar446
Apr647
May949
Jun1,192
Jul1,378
Aug1,343
Sep1,116
Oct792
Nov388
Dec126

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Avondale receives about 5.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.1 and 8.5 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.3 months, from around Mar 16 to Sep 23. The brightest month is June, averaging about 8.4 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 3.2 kWh/m² — roughly 62% less than the June peak.

012345678910JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 118.5 kWhDec 183.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan3.5Moderate
Feb4.4Bright
Mar5.9Bright
Apr7.4Intense
May8.2Intense
Jun8.5Intense
Jul7.6Intense
Aug6.9Intense
Sep6.1Intense
Oct5.0Bright
Nov3.8Moderate
Dec3.2Moderate

Where is Avondale?

Avondale sits at 33.4°N, 112.3°W, 974 ft above sea level, in United States. The nearest listed city is Goodyear, 0.6 mi away.

Topography around Avondale

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 2, 10 and 50 miles of Avondale.

Within 2 miles, the terrain around Avondale has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 105 ft around an average of 968 ft above sea level; within 10 miles, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,733 ft; within 50 miles, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 6,640 ft.

The land around Avondale is covered by artificial surfaces (45%) and bare terrain (32%) within 2 miles, artificial surfaces (29%), bare terrain (26%) and shrubs (22%) within 10 miles, and shrubs (51%) and bare terrain (24%) within 50 miles.

2 miles
105 ft
10 miles
2,733 ft
50 miles
6,640 ft
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Goodyear 0.6 mi · Maryvale 11 mi · Glendale 12 mi · Peoria 12 mi · Sun City 12 mi · El Mirage 12 mi · Alhambra 13 mi · Surprise 14 mi

United States travel facts

Power plugs
Type A / B
120 V · 60 Hz
Prices
≈ 100% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$90,027
2025
Happiness
6.8 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
98%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
5.8
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
12.7
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
High
World Bank
Religion
Protestant 47%unaffiliated 23%Roman Catholic 21%Jewish 2%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Avondale (33.4356°, -112.3496°, elevation 974 ft), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).