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Best Time for The Blues Highway

Last updated: 2026-08-16

Sweet spot: January, February, March. Computed from NASA POWER climate normals across the route's overnight towns, balancing temperature, rainfall and daylight.

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Juke joints warm up for festival season — Clarksdale's Juke Joint Fest in April is the real thing — and the Delta's flat green horizon shimmers rather than bakes.
Elvis Week fills Memphis mid-month with candlelight at Graceland; the Delta itself settles into a heat that explains every slow blues ever written.

Month	Low	High	Rain	Daylight
January	0.1°C	10.5°C	112 mm	10.0 h	❄
February	2.0°C	12.8°C	130 mm	10.7 h	❄
March	6.6°C	18.0°C	131 mm	11.7 h
April	11.4°C	23.0°C	137 mm	12.9 h
May	16.5°C	27.2°C	130 mm	13.8 h
June	21.1°C	31.7°C	97 mm	14.3 h
July	22.8°C	33.4°C	107 mm	14.0 h
August	22.4°C	33.7°C	94 mm	13.3 h
September	18.7°C	31.0°C	87 mm	12.2 h
October	11.8°C	24.7°C	115 mm	11.1 h
November	5.5°C	17.8°C	105 mm	10.2 h
December	1.7°C	12.4°C	138 mm	9.7 h	❄

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