Climate and average weather in Maumelle

In Maumelle, the summers are muggy, sweltering, showery, and partly cloudy and the winters are cool and partly cloudy.

Best: late March to mid May

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Maumelle typically varies from 34°F to 92°F, and is rarely below 20°F or above 100°F. July is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Maumelle for warm-weather activities are from late March to mid May and mid September to early November.

Hottest
Jul
92°
Coldest
Jan
34°
Wettest
May
5.6 in
Driest
Aug
2.8 in
Rain / yr
48.2 in
115 wet days
Daylight
9.7–14.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
341 ft
34.9°N
Clearest
Sep
43% cloud

Maumelle is city in Arkansas, United States.

Density
528/km²
people per km²
Founded
1974

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

Maumelle 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 March to mid May.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Maumelle, 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 21 to September 25, with daily high temperatures above 81°F. The hottest month of the year in Maumelle is July, with an average high of 92°F and low of 73°F.

The cool season lasts 3.1 months, from November 27 to February 27, with daily high temperatures below 58°F. The coldest month of the year in Maumelle is January, with an average low of 34°F and high of 51°F.

Days typically run about 19°F warmer than nights year-round.

20°40°60°80°100°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°F)Avg low (°F)
Jan5134
Feb5537
Mar6444
Apr7253
May8062
Jun8870
Jul9273
Aug9172
Sep8565
Oct7453
Nov6243
Dec5336

How hot and cold Maumelle 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, Maumelle feels like about 98°F (around July 19). About 87 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in July.

On the coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about 27°F (around January 18), with roughly 71 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 32°F), worst in January.

20°40°60°80°100°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°F)Air high (°F)Feels-like low (°F)Air low (°F)
Jan51512834
Feb55553137
Mar64644044
Apr72725253
May81806262
Jun91887070
Jul97927373
Aug95917272
Sep85856565
Oct74745353
Nov62623943
Dec53533136

Average hourly temperature in Maumelle

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 92°F, and coldest before dawn in January, near 34°F.

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

Maumelle weather by month

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

MonthHigh / Low (°F)Rainfall (inches)Wet daysSnow daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan51° / 34°3.48.80.79.92.5
Feb55° / 37°3.69.10.910.73.5
Mar64° / 44°4.911.30.311.75.5
Apr72° / 53°5.110012.96.7
May80° / 62°5.612.7013.86.1
Jun88° / 70°3.210.1014.34.4
Jul92° / 73°3.510.9014.13.5
Aug91° / 72°2.89.5013.33.8
Sep85° / 65°3.57.1012.26.0
Oct74° / 53°3.87.7011.17.4
Nov62° / 43°4.28.60.110.25.5
Dec53° / 36°4.49.10.49.73.1

Chance of rain

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

Maumelle gets about 48.2 in of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is often wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 6.1 months, from around Feb 11 to Aug 16, peaking in May at about 40% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Oct 1.

May is the wettest month by volume, with 5.6 in over about 13 wet days; August is the driest, with 2.8 in.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetMay 6 · 40%Oct 1 · 20%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan299
Feb329
Mar3611
Apr3410
May4013
Jun3510
Jul3411
Aug3110
Sep247
Oct248
Nov289
Dec309

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Maumelle collects about 48.2 in of rain across 115 wet days — roughly 4.0 in in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. May is the wettest month with 5.6 in, while August is the driest at just 2.8 in. The three wettest months alone bring about 33% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec3.43.64.95.15.63.23.52.83.53.84.24.4
Rainfall (in)Rain daysSnow days
Jan3.491
Feb3.691
Mar4.9110
Apr5.1100
May5.6130
Jun3.2100
Jul3.5110
Aug2.8100
Sep3.570
Oct3.880
Nov4.290
Dec4.490

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Maumelle, 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 June 11 and lasts for 5.0 months, ending around November 9. The clearest month is September, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 67% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around November 10 and lasts for 7.0 months, ending around June 10. The cloudiest month is February, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 55% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecSep 29 · 70%Feb 21 · 42%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan4753
Feb4555
Mar4753
Apr5149
May4852
Jun5644
Jul6139
Aug6436
Sep6733
Oct6337
Nov5446
Dec4852

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 8, brings about 14 h 18 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 9 h 42 min — a swing of roughly 4 h 36 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.97:225:16
Feb10.77:035:45
Mar11.76:276:11
Apr12.95:446:36
May13.85:117:01
Jun14.35:007:20
Jul14.15:117:19
Aug13.35:346:53
Sep12.25:576:10
Oct11.16:215:28
Nov10.26:514:59
Dec9.77:164:56

Sunny days

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

Maumelle averages about 12 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 9 and 17 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.6 months, from around Jul 15 to Nov 30. The sunniest month is September, with roughly 16 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is May, down near 10 sunny days — about 36% fewer than the September peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightSep 3017 daysMay 289 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan11Mixed
Feb10Mixed
Mar11Mixed
Apr11Mixed
May10Mixed
Jun12Mixed
Jul13Mixed
Aug15Mixed
Sep16Bright
Oct16Bright
Nov13Mixed
Dec12Mixed

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 Maumelle, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 4.9 months, from around May 5 to October 1. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 97% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 2 to May 4, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 98% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 22 · 99%Jul 29 · 2%oppressivemuggycomfortabledryhumidcomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan9532000
Feb9452000
Mar8694000
Apr641715500
May2717232760
Jun381738341
Jul13827574
Aug251632424
Sep21152125180
Oct621513910
Nov8595100
Dec9352000

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.

Across the year, average wind speed in Maumelle is typically calm, near 6 mph, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.9 months, from around Oct 22 to May 20. The windiest month is April, averaging about 7 mph (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around May 21 to Oct 21, with August the calmest month at about 5 mph.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeApr 10 · 7 mphAug 4 · 5 mph
Wind speed (mph)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb7calm
Mar7calm
Apr7calm
May6calm
Jun5calm
Jul5calm
Aug5calm
Sep5calm
Oct6calm
Nov7calm
Dec7calm

Hazard calendar for Maumelle

In seasonPeak

When the seasonal hazards worth planning around — the rainy season, tropical-cyclone risk and dust haze — are active through the year.

Maumelle sits in the Atlantic hurricane belt; the season peaks August–October.

Atlantic hurricane
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Maumelle

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid May, Maumelle 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 times of year to visit Maumelle for general outdoor tourist activities run from late March to mid May and again from mid September to early November, with a peak score in the first week of October.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationOct 7 · 7.7

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
Jan2.6poor
Feb3.6fair
Mar5.5good
Apr6.7good
May6.1good
Jun4.5fair
Jul3.5poor
Aug3.8fair
Sep5.9good
Oct7.4good
Nov5.5good
Dec3.1poor

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 75°F and 93°F. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Maumelle for hot-weather activities is from mid May to mid October, with a peak score in the last week of September.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 23 · 7.6

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 Maumelle, 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 92°F), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 51°F), pack a warm layer and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Maumelle sees daytime highs around 92°F and nights near 73°F. Pack light clothes and sun protection. Worth having: rain gear. About 11 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Maumelle 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 Maumelle peaks around June 20 at about 10 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 21 at about 2 (moderate).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 10 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighVery highHighModerateJun 20UV 10Dec 21UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan3Moderate
Feb5Moderate
Mar6High
Apr8Very high
May8Very high
Jun10Very high
Jul9Very high
Aug9Very high
Sep8Very high
Oct5High
Nov4Moderate
Dec2Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Maumelle

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 8.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 5.5 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)
Jan00
Feb40
Mar61
Apr74
May84.5
Jun8.55.5
Jul8.55.5
Aug7.55
Sep6.53.5
Oct50
Nov3.50
Dec00

Air quality in Maumelle 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 Maumelle is worst in July — around 21 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.9× the cleanest month (January, 7 µg/m³).

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodJul 1621 µg/m³Jan 17 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan7Good
Feb9Good
Mar11Good
Apr11Good
May15Moderate
Jun19Moderate
Jul21Moderate
Aug18Moderate
Sep16Moderate
Oct11Good
Nov8Good
Dec7Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayReliably frost-free (≥90%)

Maumelle is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about March 15 to November 11 (242 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freeMar 1590%Nov 1190%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan5731
Feb6928
Mar8912
Apr990
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct990
Nov8720
Dec6731

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. Maumelle banks about 5,249 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°F·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar129
Apr376
May653
Jun871
Jul1,005
Aug970
Sep739
Oct423
Nov83
Dec0

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.

Maumelle receives about 4.5 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.2 and 6.4 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.4 months, from around Mar 22 to Oct 2. The brightest month is June, averaging about 6.3 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.3 kWh/m² — roughly 64% less than the June peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 226.4 kWhDec 192.2 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.5Moderate
Feb3.2Moderate
Mar4.3Bright
Apr5.4Bright
May5.8Bright
Jun6.4Intense
Jul6.3Intense
Aug5.9Bright
Sep5.0Bright
Oct3.8Moderate
Nov2.7Moderate
Dec2.3Moderate

Where is Maumelle?

Maumelle sits at 34.9°N, 92.4°W, 341 ft above sea level, in United States. The nearest listed city is North Little Rock, 11 mi away.

Topography around Maumelle

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

Within 2 miles, the terrain around Maumelle has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 318 ft around an average of 322 ft above sea level; within 10 miles, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 846 ft; within 50 miles, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,834 ft.

The land around Maumelle is covered by trees (62%) and artificial surfaces (23%) within 2 miles, trees (70%) within 10 miles, and trees (65%) within 50 miles.

2 miles
318 ft
10 miles
846 ft
50 miles
1,834 ft
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: North Little Rock 11 mi · Little Rock 11 mi · Sherwood 11 mi · Conway 16 mi · Jacksonville 17 mi · Bryant 19 mi · Cabot 23 mi · Benton 24 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 Maumelle (34.8668°, -92.4043°, elevation 341 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. Tropical-cyclone seasons are the published climatological basin seasons (NOAA National Hurricane Center / regional warning centres). 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).