United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Raleigh.

May leads for comfortable weather in Raleigh: typically 25.2°C by day, 13.2°C at night, with 117 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortMay

Typical high25.2°C

Typical low13.2°C

Rain in May117 mm

Comfort

May

May · September · October

76climate match

Beach

August

August · July · June

77climate match

Outdoors

October

October · April · September

77climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against May’s 76 — days reach only 5.6°C, 18° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal.

Month by month

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

The bars show the comfort score. Day and night temperatures come from daily observed highs and lows; rain is the historical monthly estimate.

Jan

55.6° / -4.2°

Feb

108.5° / -2.3°

Mar

3014.5° / 2.3°

Apr

5320.7° / 7.7°

May

7625.2° / 13.2°

Jun

6129.7° / 17.9°

Jul

5831.1° / 19.4°

Aug

6231.3° / 18.6°

Sep

7627.5° / 13.5°

Oct

6821.6° / 7.2°

Nov

3114.2° / 2.6°

Dec

57.5° / -2.3°

Monthly climate evidence for Raleigh — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	5.6°C	-4.2°C	90 mm	6.3	9 h 48	5	Good coverage
February	8.5°C	-2.3°C	73 mm	5.7	10 h 44	10	Good coverage
March	14.5°C	2.3°C	114 mm	8	11 h 50	30	Good coverage
April	20.7°C	7.7°C	149 mm	10.7	13 h 07	53	Good coverage
May	25.2°C	13.2°C	117 mm	8.5	14 h 11	76	Good coverage
June	29.7°C	17.9°C	115 mm	7.2	14 h 46	61	Good coverage
July	31.1°C	19.4°C	90 mm	6.4	14 h 32	58	Good coverage
August	31.3°C	18.6°C	72 mm	5.6	13 h 37	62	Good coverage
September	27.5°C	13.5°C	87 mm	5.5	12 h 23	76	Good coverage
October	21.6°C	7.2°C	92 mm	5.8	11 h 09	68	Good coverage
November	14.2°C	2.6°C	108 mm	7.5	10 h 05	31	Good coverage
December	7.5°C	-2.3°C	85 mm	7.2	9 h 33	5	Good coverage

Records at HARRISBURG, 1898–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	25.6°C24 Jan 1943	-30.0°C17 Jan 1977	98 mm14 Jan 1937	449 mm1950 · driest 0 mm in 2009	117
February	26.7°C13 Feb 1962	-30.6°C2 Feb 1951	86 mm6 Feb 2008	180 mm1950 · driest 0 mm in 2009	117
March	34.4°C24 Mar 1929	-22.2°C6 Mar 1960	254 mm18 Mar 2008	371 mm2008 · driest 0 mm in 1916	119
April	35.6°C28 Apr 1901	-5.6°C5 Apr 1944	146 mm29 Apr 1996	337 mm2011 · driest 21 mm in 1930	116
May	37.8°C28 May 1911	-2.2°C3 May 2005	188 mm22 May 1957	363 mm1981 · driest 4 mm in 2022	116
June	41.1°C28 Jun 2012	4.4°C4 Jun 1945	126 mm26 Jun 2011	354 mm1928 · driest 5 mm in 2012	118
July	45.0°C13 Jul 1936	7.2°C6 Jul 1997	109 mm21 Jul 1905	255 mm1899 · driest 4 mm in 1918	116
August	43.9°C8 Aug 1930	5.0°C28 Aug 2009	172 mm17 Aug 1959	278 mm1916 · driest 0 mm in 2025	118
September	42.8°C3 Sep 1913	-5.0°C22 Sep 1995	109 mm23 Sep 2006	241 mm2006 · driest 0 mm in 1928	115
October	36.7°C2 Oct 1953	-7.8°C24 Oct 1981	139 mm5 Oct 1910	334 mm1910 · driest 0 mm in 2024	116
November	30.6°C5 Nov 1909	-19.4°C30 Nov 1929	114 mm17 Nov 1921	247 mm1921 · driest 6 mm in 1910	115
December	25.6°C2 Dec 1982	-23.9°C12 Dec 1917	135 mm3 Dec 1982	333 mm1982 · driest 6 mm in 2010	114

Typical days per month at HARRISBURG, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	23	3	<1
February	0	0	19	3	<1
March	3	<1	11	3	<1
April	8	1	3	4	0
May	17	5	<1	4	0
June	26	16	0	3	0
July	29	21	0	3	0
August	28	21	0	2	0
September	21	10	<1	3	0
October	9	2	2	3	<1
November	1	0	11	3	0
December	0	0	20	3	<1

How often, not how much — every day in HARRISBURG’s record sorted by what it was actually like, rather than averaged
Month	Warm & dry days	Wet days	Washouts	Week with 3+ wet days	Daytime mean has ranged
January	1%	23%	10%	22%	3.0–9.8°C
February	5%	23%	9%	24%	4.5–12.1°C
March	19%	28%	12%	31%	10.9–18.3°C
April	43%	30%	13%	34%	18.3–23.4°C
May	66%	27%	12%	32%	23.3–28.3°C
June	75%	25%	10%	24%	28.4–33.2°C
July	78%	22%	10%	21%	30.7–35.0°C
August	80%	20%	9%	17%	30.0–34.2°C
September	78%	19%	9%	18%	26.1–31.4°C
October	58%	19%	8%	18%	20.1–25.2°C
November	19%	22%	10%	21%	11.7–17.0°C
December	2%	24%	10%	25%	4.9–11.6°C

A warm and dry day reaches 20°C with under 1 mm of rain; a wet day gets 1 mm or more; a washout gets 10 mm or more. The week column is the share of seven-day stretches in that month, across the station’s whole daily record, that contained three or more wet days — the odds a week-long trip is rained on repeatedly, counted rather than modelled. The last column is the 10th to 90th percentile of that month’s daytime average across individual years: a narrow band means the average is what you will get, a wide one means the average is a midpoint between years that felt quite different.

1899Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 102-year average. Warmest: 1921. Coolest: 1997.2024

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4247770
NOAA station: USC00113879 · HARRISBURG
Station distance: 9.6 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 18 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 37.83°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Important limit: Historical climate is not a forecast. Nearby stations can miss mountains, coasts, and local microclimates.

These places read the same station, so their numbers are identical — distance from HARRISBURG is what differs

Harrisburg→Eldorado→Carrier Mills→Galatia→Equality→Crab Orchard→

Or put two places side by side: Raleigh vs Harrisburg

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Best time to visit
Raleigh.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.