United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Bills Creek.

October leads for comfortable weather in Bills Creek: typically 22.8°C by day, 8.8°C at night, with 104 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortOctober

Typical high22.8°C

Typical low8.8°C

Rain in October104 mm

Comfort

October

October · May · April

73climate match

Beach

June

June · July · August

64climate match

Outdoors

October

October · April · November

74climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 12 against October’s 73 — days reach only 11.3°C, 13° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to -2.2°C.

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

1211.3° / -2.2°

Feb

2513.4° / -0.7°

Mar

4317.9° / 3.3°

Apr

6822.7° / 7.3°

May

7226.4° / 12.6°

Jun

5830.3° / 17.3°

Jul

4831.9° / 19.3°

Aug

4930.9° / 19.1°

Sep

6628.1° / 15.6°

Oct

7322.8° / 8.8°

Nov

4417.5° / 2.6°

Dec

2212.9° / -0.2°

Monthly climate evidence for Bills Creek — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	11.3°C	-2.2°C	117 mm	6.9	10 h 00	12	Good coverage
February	13.4°C	-0.7°C	96 mm	6.8	10 h 51	25	Good coverage
March	17.9°C	3.3°C	114 mm	8.2	11 h 52	43	Good coverage
April	22.7°C	7.3°C	111 mm	7	13 h 02	68	Good coverage
May	26.4°C	12.6°C	118 mm	8.3	14 h 01	72	Good coverage
June	30.3°C	17.3°C	119 mm	9.3	14 h 32	58	Good coverage
July	31.9°C	19.3°C	124 mm	9.8	14 h 20	48	Good coverage
August	30.9°C	19.1°C	147 mm	9.2	13 h 30	49	Good coverage
September	28.1°C	15.6°C	150 mm	6.9	12 h 21	66	Good coverage
October	22.8°C	8.8°C	104 mm	5.6	11 h 14	73	Good coverage
November	17.5°C	2.6°C	104 mm	6.1	10 h 15	44	Good coverage
December	12.9°C	-0.2°C	111 mm	7	9 h 46	22	Good coverage

Records at LAKE LURE 2, 2001–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	27.2°C31 Jan 2002	-14.4°C8 Jan 2014	90 mm10 Jan 2024	247 mm2024 · driest 3 mm in 2004	25
February	27.8°C24 Feb 2023	-14.4°C20 Feb 2015	74 mm7 Feb 2020	230 mm2020 · driest 5 mm in 2006	24
March	31.1°C29 Mar 2020	-8.9°C1 Mar 2002	72 mm6 Mar 2011	214 mm2011 · driest 7 mm in 2009	25
April	34.4°C7 Apr 2010	-2.8°C4 Apr 2021	81 mm24 Apr 2018	183 mm2013 · driest 8 mm in 2008	25
May	35.0°C29 May 2019	1.1°C4 May 2004	113 mm30 May 2018	426 mm2018 · driest 3 mm in 2006	25
June	36.7°C23 Jun 2022	8.3°C2 Jun 2003	105 mm29 Jun 2014	220 mm2019 · driest 6 mm in 2008	25
July	38.3°C2 Jul 2012	11.7°C2 Jul 2008	53 mm7 Jul 2013	206 mm2013 · driest 5 mm in 2008	26
August	39.4°C10 Aug 2007	10.0°C9 Aug 2004	180 mm27 Aug 2008	373 mm2020 · driest 13 mm in 2013	25
September	35.6°C13 Sep 2019	5.0°C30 Sep 2003	234 mm8 Sep 2004	454 mm2004 · driest 5 mm in 2005	25
October	35.0°C3 Oct 2019	-4.4°C29 Oct 2001	102 mm7 Oct 2021	264 mm2017 · driest 1 mm in 2024	24
November	30.0°C10 Nov 2023	-8.9°C20 Nov 2014	99 mm11 Nov 2009	247 mm2015 · driest 4 mm in 2012	25
December	26.7°C4 Dec 2021	-13.9°C25 Dec 2022	94 mm1 Dec 2010	281 mm2018 · driest 22 mm in 2006	24

Typical days per month at LAKE LURE 2, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	<1	0	17	3	<1
February	<1	0	14	2	<1
March	4	<1	8	3	<1
April	10	2	1	3	0
May	16	5	0	3	0
June	23	15	0	3	0
July	24	20	0	4	0
August	23	16	0	3	0
September	18	9	0	3	0
October	9	1	1	3	0
November	1	0	9	3	0
December	<1	0	14	4	<1

How often, not how much — every day in LAKE LURE 2’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	5%	24%	11%	27%	8.4–14.4°C
February	14%	27%	12%	33%	10.5–16.5°C
March	33%	27%	11%	30%	15.2–21.2°C
April	61%	25%	12%	26%	21.5–24.9°C
May	65%	29%	12%	34%	24.3–28.1°C
June	71%	31%	13%	39%	28.7–31.8°C
July	63%	35%	14%	47%	30.5–33.5°C
August	67%	31%	13%	37%	29.3–32.2°C
September	76%	24%	11%	25%	26.2–29.6°C
October	63%	20%	10%	21%	21.3–24.5°C
November	31%	21%	9%	18%	14.8–20.2°C
December	7%	24%	11%	25%	10.4–16.4°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.

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4455974
NOAA station: USC00314764 · LAKE LURE 2
Station distance: 4.9 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 15 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 35.45°, 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 LAKE LURE 2 is what differs

Lake Lure→Chimney Rock→Bat Cave→Bob (historical)→Camp Occoneechee→Carolina Mountains→

Or put two places side by side: Bills Creek vs Lake Lure

Best time to visitBills Creek.

October

June

October

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Bills Creek.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.