United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Carolina City.

October leads for comfortable weather in Carolina City: typically 24.4°C by day, 13.6°C at night, with 125 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortOctober

Typical high24.4°C

Typical low13.6°C

Rain in October125 mm

Comfort

October

October · May · April

81climate match

Beach

June

June · July · August

77climate match

Outdoors

April

April · November · March

79climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 27 against October’s 81 — days reach only 13.6°C, 10° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to 2.3°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

2713.6° / 2.3°

Feb

3514.6° / 3.4°

Mar

5117.6° / 6.4°

Apr

7421.7° / 11.3°

May

7725.4° / 16.3°

Jun

5628.8° / 20.9°

Jul

4330.5° / 23°

Aug

3830.2° / 22.2°

Sep

4628.4° / 19.8°

Oct

8124.4° / 13.6°

Nov

5619.3° / 7.9°

Dec

3715.5° / 4.4°

Monthly climate evidence for Carolina City — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 15 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	13.6°C	2.3°C	116 mm	8.3	17.2°C	10 h 04	27	Strong coverage
February	14.6°C	3.4°C	99 mm	7.8	16.1°C	10 h 53	35	Strong coverage
March	17.6°C	6.4°C	94 mm	7.8	16.8°C	11 h 52	51	Strong coverage
April	21.7°C	11.3°C	91 mm	6.7	18.5°C	13 h 01	74	Strong coverage
May	25.4°C	16.3°C	117 mm	7.6	21.3°C	13 h 58	77	Strong coverage
June	28.8°C	20.9°C	125 mm	8.4	25.1°C	14 h 28	56	Strong coverage
July	30.5°C	23°C	144 mm	9.4	27.1°C	14 h 16	43	Strong coverage
August	30.2°C	22.2°C	189 mm	10.6	27.6°C	13 h 27	38	Strong coverage
September	28.4°C	19.8°C	215 mm	9.2	26.5°C	12 h 21	46	Strong coverage
October	24.4°C	13.6°C	125 mm	6.4	23.6°C	11 h 15	81	Strong coverage
November	19.3°C	7.9°C	116 mm	7.4	20.4°C	10 h 18	56	Strong coverage
December	15.5°C	4.4°C	112 mm	8.1	18.5°C	9 h 50	37	Strong coverage

What has changed

Carolina City runs -0.3°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Each bar compares the 2011–2025 daytime average for that month against the same month in 1961–1990, measured at the same station. Months where the older record is too thin to compare are left blank.

Jan

+0.2

Feb

+0.5

Mar

-0.2

Apr

-0.3

May

-0.3

Jun

-0.1

Jul

-0.3

Aug

-0.8

Sep

-0.7

Oct

-0.5

Nov

-1.0

Dec

+0.5

October daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 21.0°C.

Records at MOREHEAD CITY 2 WNW, 1948–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	25.6°C22 Jan 1999	-17.2°C21 Jan 1985	118 mm4 Jan 1982	243 mm1979 · driest 0 mm in 1966	78
February	25.6°C25 Feb 2023	-13.3°C5 Feb 1996	130 mm4 Feb 1998	314 mm1998 · driest 20 mm in 1965	78
March	30.0°C10 Mar 1974	-11.1°C3 Mar 1980	88 mm21 Mar 2003	289 mm2003 · driest 5 mm in 1960	78
April	33.3°C23 Apr 1985	-3.9°C8 Apr 1998	86 mm26 Apr 2003	237 mm2003 · driest 7 mm in 1957	79
May	36.1°C31 May 2011	1.7°C11 May 1997	140 mm6 May 2005	362 mm2020 · driest 8 mm in 2011	79
June	39.4°C30 Jun 1959	6.7°C5 Jun 1997	216 mm11 Jun 1966	277 mm2005 · driest 7 mm in 1990	78
July	37.8°C22 Jul 1987	12.2°C2 Jul 1975	119 mm25 Jul 2014	368 mm1996 · driest 16 mm in 1958	78
August	36.7°C21 Aug 1983	11.7°C10 Aug 1997	200 mm31 Aug 2023	384 mm2021 · driest 9 mm in 1965	78
September	34.4°C14 Sep 1952	5.0°C25 Sep 1949	232 mm15 Sep 2018	564 mm2018 · driest 3 mm in 1953	77
October	35.0°C5 Oct 1986	-2.8°C29 Oct 1976	179 mm31 Oct 1985	331 mm2005 · driest 0 mm in 1958	78
November	28.9°C12 Nov 1989	-7.2°C9 Nov 1976	196 mm20 Nov 2015	312 mm2015 · driest 14 mm in 1965	78
December	26.1°C1 Dec 1998	-16.1°C25 Dec 1983	150 mm28 Dec 1980	291 mm1973 · driest 11 mm in 1965	78

Typical days per month at MOREHEAD CITY 2 WNW, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	0	0	12	4
February	0	0	8	3
March	<1	0	4	3
April	4	<1	<1	3
May	20	1	0	3
June	29	8	0	4
July	31	22	0	4
August	31	21	0	6
September	27	9	0	5
October	16	<1	0	3
November	2	0	2	3
December	<1	0	8	4

How often, not how much — every day in MOREHEAD CITY 2 WNW’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%	26%	11%	26%	10.3–16.1°C
February	7%	27%	12%	30%	11.8–16.4°C
March	25%	24%	11%	23%	15.4–19.1°C
April	60%	20%	9%	16%	20.2–23.1°C
May	74%	24%	11%	27%	24.2–26.7°C
June	75%	25%	11%	28%	27.5–30.0°C
July	70%	30%	15%	40%	29.3–31.5°C
August	69%	31%	16%	35%	29.2–31.4°C
September	74%	27%	14%	28%	27.0–29.8°C
October	72%	19%	9%	17%	22.4–25.5°C
November	38%	22%	10%	22%	17.3–21.3°C
December	13%	24%	11%	24%	11.9–17.8°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.

1949Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 74-year average. Warmest: 1990. Coolest: 1967.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4459269
NOAA station: USC00315830 · MOREHEAD CITY 2 WNW
Station distance: 1 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 29 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 34.72°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 15 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 MOREHEAD CITY 2 WNW is what differs

Morehead City→Bonham Heights→Country Club East→Crab Point Village→Harlowe→Hedrick Estates→

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Best time to visitCarolina City.

October

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April

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Carolina City runs -0.3°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Carolina City.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Carolina City runs -0.3°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.