Tucson Weather

The weather in Tucson in the summer is almost unbelievably hot – usually in the three digits in June and July. The heat may bear down as early as April and not let up until October. It is not something to be taken lightly. There are two slightly moderating factors: first, it is a dry heat, which means that going into the shade reduces the temperature significantly; second, August and September is monsoon season. Almost every night for a few weeks a brief and spectacular lightning storm will move from the mountains over portions of the city and drop flooding amounts of rain.Still, summer is a trial. The winter, on the other hand, is ideal. The average temperatures are in the sixties and it almost never rains. Between October and February the city suddenly becomes much more crowded.