Historical weather data, all-time temperature records, and monthly climate averages for Great Kills, NY. Explore typical weather conditions by week for trip planning, and see how today compares to the historical record.
April 5th in Great Kills sits right in that classic spring shoulder zone — 175 years of data puts the average at a mild 56° high and 38° low, but the date has a wild range. Temperatures have swung from a brutal 21° back in 1874 all the way up to 83° in 1985, so pack layers. There's a 35% chance of rain today, though snow is mostly off the table at just 4%.
Great Kills has seen some genuinely extreme weather over its 183-year record. On the brutal end, a -14° low in February 1934 and a scorching 108° in July 2011 bookend the temperature range — a 122-degree spread. The wettest single day on record dumped a staggering 15 inches of rain back in August 1843, and the biggest snowstorm dropped 25.9 inches the day after Christmas in 1947.
Summer is the clear sweet spot here, with highs peaking around 85-86° in mid-to-late July before gradually easing into a pleasant fall. If you're avoiding the heat, January through February keeps things in the upper 30s to 40s. Rain-wise, late July is the wettest stretch of the year, averaging over an inch of precipitation in a single week.