United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Cape Carteret.

October leads for comfortable weather in Cape Carteret: typically 23.7°C by day, 12.2°C at night, with 118 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortOctober

Typical high23.7°C

Typical low12.2°C

Rain in October118 mm

Comfort

October

October · May · April

79climate match

Beach

June

June · July · August

72climate match

Outdoors

April

April · November · March

77climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 24 against October’s 79 — days reach only 12.7°C, 11° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to 0.9°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

2412.7° / 0.9°

Feb

2914.2° / 2.2°

Mar

4817.5° / 5.3°

Apr

7021.9° / 10.1°

May

7725.8° / 15°

Jun

5429.4° / 19.8°

Jul

4030.8° / 21.8°

Aug

3630.4° / 21.3°

Sep

4228.1° / 18.8°

Oct

7923.7° / 12.2°

Nov

5018.6° / 6°

Dec

3415.1° / 3.2°

Monthly climate evidence for Cape Carteret — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 9 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	12.7°C	0.9°C	97 mm	8.2	15.8°C	10 h 04	24	Good coverage
February	14.2°C	2.2°C	108 mm	8.7	14.7°C	10 h 53	29	Good coverage
March	17.5°C	5.3°C	93 mm	8	15.8°C	11 h 52	48	Good coverage
April	21.9°C	10.1°C	104 mm	7.5	17.8°C	13 h 00	70	Good coverage
May	25.8°C	15°C	125 mm	7.7	21.2°C	13 h 57	77	Good coverage
June	29.4°C	19.8°C	133 mm	9.3	25.1°C	14 h 28	54	Good coverage
July	30.8°C	21.8°C	168 mm	10.6	27.2°C	14 h 16	40	Good coverage
August	30.4°C	21.3°C	205 mm	11.4	27.6°C	13 h 27	36	Good coverage
September	28.1°C	18.8°C	255 mm	10.3	26.5°C	12 h 21	42	Good coverage
October	23.7°C	12.2°C	118 mm	6.6	23.3°C	11 h 15	79	Good coverage
November	18.6°C	6°C	119 mm	8	19.7°C	10 h 18	50	Good coverage
December	15.1°C	3.2°C	108 mm	8.8	17.4°C	9 h 50	34	Good coverage

Records at NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY WFO, 1996–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	25.6°C31 Jan 2002	-13.3°C25 Jan 2003	73 mm22 Jan 2016	196 mm1998 · driest 29 mm in 2001	31
February	27.2°C24 Feb 2023	-13.3°C2 Feb 2026	121 mm4 Feb 2016	277 mm1998 · driest 43 mm in 2018	31
March	29.4°C28 Mar 2007	-9.4°C4 Mar 2009	73 mm2 Mar 2024	242 mm2024 · driest 20 mm in 2026	31
April	31.1°C10 Apr 2001	-4.4°C3 Apr 2021	85 mm15 Apr 2000	209 mm2000 · driest 20 mm in 2010	30
May	36.1°C24 May 2019	2.8°C10 May 2020	126 mm6 May 2005	419 mm2003 · driest 28 mm in 2011	30
June	37.8°C27 Jun 1998	7.8°C8 Jun 1998	95 mm7 Jun 2004	290 mm2021 · driest 31 mm in 1998	31
July	38.3°C30 Jul 2011	11.7°C5 Jul 1996	121 mm24 Jul 2004	421 mm2022 · driest 45 mm in 2019	31
August	37.2°C23 Aug 2002	12.2°C1 Aug 2017	176 mm30 Aug 1999	376 mm2024 · driest 57 mm in 2007	30
September	34.4°C4 Sep 2020	6.1°C5 Sep 1997	380 mm14 Sep 2018	799 mm2018 · driest 64 mm in 2025	30
October	33.9°C4 Oct 2019	-2.2°C30 Oct 2008	136 mm17 Oct 1999	309 mm2005 · driest 2 mm in 2024	30
November	29.4°C5 Nov 2003	-6.7°C19 Nov 2014	185 mm19 Nov 2015	310 mm2018 · driest 22 mm in 2007	30
December	26.7°C7 Dec 2001	-9.4°C20 Dec 2004	59 mm10 Dec 2003	231 mm2009 · driest 26 mm in 2011	30

Typical days per month at NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY WFO, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	<1	0	16	3	<1
February	<1	0	11	4	<1
March	2	0	7	3	<1
April	7	<1	<1	3	0
May	20	3	0	4	0
June	29	13	0	4	0
July	31	23	0	5	0
August	31	22	0	5	0
September	27	9	0	5	0
October	14	1	<1	3	0
November	3	0	6	3	<1
December	<1	0	12	4	<1

How often, not how much — every day in NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY WFO’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	9%	27%	10%	27%	9.9–15.7°C
February	12%	31%	12%	34%	11.4–17.1°C
March	33%	25%	10%	24%	15.2–19.9°C
April	59%	23%	11%	22%	20.8–23.5°C
May	72%	25%	12%	27%	24.5–27.0°C
June	69%	30%	13%	37%	27.9–30.5°C
July	64%	36%	17%	52%	29.7–32.0°C
August	63%	37%	17%	47%	29.2–31.4°C
September	68%	32%	18%	38%	27.0–29.6°C
October	65%	20%	9%	19%	21.9–24.9°C
November	29%	25%	9%	27%	16.2–20.7°C
December	14%	27%	11%	27%	12.8–17.6°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.

1996Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 27-year average. Warmest: 1998. Coolest: 2010.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4459135
NOAA station: USC00316096 · NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY WFO
Station distance: 19.4 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 22 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 34.69°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 9 km from the place centre. A sheltered bay can run warmer than the open sea it is measured from.
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 NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY WFO is what differs

Newport→Emerald Isle→Broad Creek→Cedar Point→Bogue→Peletier→

Or put two places side by side: Cape Carteret vs Newport

Best time to visitCape Carteret.