United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Carolina Beach.

April leads for comfortable weather in Carolina Beach: typically 23.4°C by day, 10.3°C at night, with 74 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortApril

Typical high23.4°C

Typical low10.3°C

Rain in April74 mm

Comfort

April

April · May · October

82climate match

Beach

June

June · May · July

78climate match

Outdoors

November

November · April · March

82climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 32 against April’s 82 — days reach only 14.4°C, 10° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to 1°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

3214.4° / 1°

Feb

3715.3° / 2°

Mar

5519.3° / 5.6°

Apr

8223.4° / 10.3°

May

8026.9° / 15.1°

Jun

5730.4° / 20.2°

Jul

4032° / 22.6°

Aug

3831.4° / 21.3°

Sep

4629.3° / 18.6°

Oct

7924.8° / 11.9°

Nov

6120° / 6.3°

Dec

4116.1° / 2.9°

Monthly climate evidence for Carolina Beach — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 10 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	14.4°C	1°C	86 mm	6.8	15.3°C	10 h 07	32	Strong coverage
February	15.3°C	2°C	83 mm	7.2	14.3°C	10 h 54	37	Strong coverage
March	19.3°C	5.6°C	101 mm	7	15.6°C	11 h 52	55	Strong coverage
April	23.4°C	10.3°C	74 mm	5	18.3°C	12 h 59	82	Good coverage
May	26.9°C	15.1°C	85 mm	6.3	21.9°C	13 h 55	80	Good coverage
June	30.4°C	20.2°C	99 mm	7.4	25.6°C	14 h 24	57	Good coverage
July	32°C	22.6°C	141 mm	8.5	27.4°C	14 h 13	40	Good coverage
August	31.4°C	21.3°C	172 mm	10.3	27.7°C	13 h 25	38	Good coverage
September	29.3°C	18.6°C	219 mm	8.3	26.6°C	12 h 21	46	Good coverage
October	24.8°C	11.9°C	106 mm	5.9	23.4°C	11 h 16	79	Good coverage
November	20°C	6.3°C	84 mm	6.2	19.8°C	10 h 21	61	Strong coverage
December	16.1°C	2.9°C	88 mm	7	16.9°C	9 h 54	41	Good coverage

Records at SOUTHPORT 5 N, 1892–2016
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	27.8°C13 Jan 2013	-17.8°C21 Jan 1985	187 mm27 Jan 1921	274 mm1915 · driest 10 mm in 2013	123
February	27.2°C25 Feb 1982	-17.2°C14 Feb 1899	127 mm17 Feb 1998	283 mm1983 · driest 6 mm in 2012	124
March	32.2°C11 Mar 1974	-13.3°C4 Mar 1980	128 mm21 Mar 2001	253 mm2001 · driest 17 mm in 1907	124
April	34.4°C24 Apr 1985	-3.9°C7 Apr 1982	132 mm19 Apr 1899	227 mm1899 · driest 2 mm in 1927	121
May	36.1°C29 May 1975	2.2°C12 May 1969	142 mm12 May 1912	290 mm1999 · driest 3 mm in 1936	120
June	39.4°C26 Jun 1952	7.2°C2 Jun 1972	199 mm15 Jun 1946	312 mm1995 · driest 12 mm in 1954	121
July	38.9°C1 Jul 2012	7.8°C10 Jul 1985	166 mm24 Jul 1925	509 mm1946 · driest 0 mm in 2014	122
August	38.9°C6 Aug 2008	11.7°C17 Aug 1979	254 mm27 Aug 1998	380 mm1992 · driest 8 mm in 1997	119
September	38.3°C2 Sep 1912	1.7°C24 Sep 1981	465 mm16 Sep 1999	787 mm1999 · driest 9 mm in 1940	119
October	34.4°C6 Oct 1986	-5.0°C27 Oct 1962	218 mm14 Oct 1994	304 mm1993 · driest 0 mm in 1943	118
November	30.6°C3 Nov 1974	-8.9°C23 Nov 1981	145 mm7 Nov 1951	265 mm1985 · driest 9 mm in 1931	119
December	27.2°C11 Dec 2007	-19.4°C25 Dec 1989	109 mm9 Dec 1905	303 mm1905 · driest 4 mm in 2010	121

Typical days per month at SOUTHPORT 5 N, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	<1	0	13	3
February	<1	0	11	3
March	4	<1	5	3
April	12	<1	<1	2
May	23	5	0	3
June	28	17	0	3
July	29	24	0	4
August	28	23	0	4
September	25	12	0	4
October	15	3	<1	3
November	5	0	5	2
December	1	0	10	3

How often, not how much — every day in SOUTHPORT 5 N’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	7%	27%	11%	30%	10.9–16.8°C
February	9%	28%	12%	31%	11.7–16.7°C
March	27%	26%	11%	25%	15.6–20.3°C
April	60%	21%	8%	18%	20.2–24.3°C
May	76%	23%	9%	21%	24.3–27.6°C
June	74%	27%	11%	28%	27.7–31.0°C
July	68%	32%	16%	38%	29.5–32.6°C
August	68%	32%	15%	38%	29.3–32.1°C
September	71%	29%	14%	32%	27.2–30.5°C
October	72%	20%	8%	16%	22.7–25.9°C
November	39%	20%	8%	17%	17.2–21.7°C
December	12%	26%	10%	28%	12.3–18.0°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.

1892Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 104-year average. Warmest: 2008. Coolest: 1892.2015

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4459261
NOAA station: USC00318113 · SOUTHPORT 5 N
Station distance: 11.4 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 22 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 34.04°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 10 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 SOUTHPORT 5 N is what differs

Oak Island→Boiling Spring Lakes→Long Beach→Southport→Saint James→Kure Beach→

Or put two places side by side: Carolina Beach vs Oak Island

Best time to visitCarolina Beach.