United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Carolina Shores.

October leads for comfortable weather in Carolina Shores: typically 23.9°C by day, 11.4°C at night, with 116 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortOctober

Typical high23.9°C

Typical low11.4°C

Rain in October116 mm

Comfort

October

October · April · May

79climate match

Beach

June

June · August · May

70climate match

Outdoors

April

April · November · March

77climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 27 against October’s 79 — days reach only 13.5°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

2713.5° / 1°

Feb

3515.1° / 2°

Mar

5318.8° / 5.1°

Apr

7723° / 9.5°

May

7726.8° / 14.7°

Jun

5329.9° / 19.6°

Jul

3831.6° / 21.8°

Aug

3930.7° / 21°

Sep

5528.3° / 18.1°

Oct

7923.9° / 11.4°

Nov

5518.9° / 5.5°

Dec

3515.1° / 2.4°

Monthly climate evidence for Carolina Shores — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 5 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	13.5°C	1°C	91 mm	8.4	15.6°C	10 h 07	27	Strong coverage
February	15.1°C	2°C	90 mm	7.7	14.9°C	10 h 55	35	Strong coverage
March	18.8°C	5.1°C	93 mm	7.5	15.9°C	11 h 52	53	Strong coverage
April	23°C	9.5°C	87 mm	6.4	18.4°C	12 h 59	77	Strong coverage
May	26.8°C	14.7°C	103 mm	7.6	22.3°C	13 h 54	77	Strong coverage
June	29.9°C	19.6°C	133 mm	9.2	26.0°C	14 h 24	53	Strong coverage
July	31.6°C	21.8°C	163 mm	10.7	27.9°C	14 h 12	38	Strong coverage
August	30.7°C	21°C	182 mm	11.6	28.1°C	13 h 25	39	Strong coverage
September	28.3°C	18.1°C	177 mm	9.1	26.9°C	12 h 21	55	Strong coverage
October	23.9°C	11.4°C	116 mm	6.4	23.5°C	11 h 17	79	Strong coverage
November	18.9°C	5.5°C	91 mm	6.1	19.8°C	10 h 21	55	Strong coverage
December	15.1°C	2.4°C	97 mm	8.2	16.9°C	9 h 54	35	Strong coverage

What has changed

Carolina Shores runs -0.8°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

0.0

Feb

+0.1

Mar

-0.3

Apr

-0.6

May

-0.7

Jun

-0.6

Jul

-0.8

Aug

-1.5

Sep

-1.4

Oct

-1.1

Nov

-2.8

Dec

+0.3

October daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 21.4°C.

Records at LONGWOOD, 1972–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	28.9°C4 Jan 1997	-17.8°C21 Jan 1985	90 mm20 Jan 1991	254 mm1991 · driest 23 mm in 1981	54
February	28.3°C1 Feb 1975	-15.0°C12 Feb 1973	123 mm17 Feb 1998	296 mm1998 · driest 25 mm in 2000	54
March	31.1°C10 Mar 1974	-15.0°C4 Mar 1980	111 mm21 Mar 2003	305 mm1983 · driest 12 mm in 1995	54
April	34.4°C29 Apr 1981	-6.1°C10 Apr 1985	79 mm23 Apr 1998	210 mm2017 · driest 1 mm in 1995	53
May	37.2°C30 May 2019	0.0°C3 May 1981	90 mm29 May 2010	214 mm2020 · driest 16 mm in 2021	54
June	38.3°C20 Jun 1984	6.7°C1 Jun 1984	159 mm9 Jun 2019	325 mm2013 · driest 15 mm in 1990	55
July	38.9°C14 Jul 2011	8.3°C6 Jul 1972	165 mm26 Jul 1978	409 mm2013 · driest 38 mm in 1987	54
August	39.4°C22 Aug 1983	7.8°C17 Aug 1979	168 mm31 Aug 2023	394 mm1976 · driest 37 mm in 1983	53
September	36.7°C8 Sep 1983	1.7°C23 Sep 1983	326 mm16 Sep 1999	553 mm1999 · driest 18 mm in 1981	53
October	35.0°C6 Oct 1986	-7.8°C29 Oct 1976	179 mm3 Oct 2015	534 mm2015 · driest 4 mm in 2000	52
November	30.6°C17 Nov 1993	-7.2°C22 Nov 2000	81 mm3 Nov 2015	208 mm2015 · driest 1 mm in 2007	53
December	27.8°C9 Dec 1998	-20.0°C25 Dec 1989	118 mm23 Dec 2006	211 mm2023 · driest 13 mm in 2011	54

Typical days per month at LONGWOOD, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	<1	0	16	3
February	<1	0	12	3
March	4	<1	7	3
April	11	<1	<1	3
May	23	6	0	3
June	29	16	0	4
July	31	25	0	5
August	30	21	0	5
September	26	10	0	4
October	14	<1	<1	3
November	4	0	6	3
December	1	0	13	3

How often, not how much — every day in LONGWOOD’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	10%	28%	10%	28%	10.4–16.3°C
February	19%	27%	10%	29%	12.1–17.4°C
March	39%	24%	10%	24%	16.8–21.5°C
April	64%	21%	9%	19%	21.7–25.2°C
May	72%	26%	11%	28%	25.4–28.2°C
June	70%	30%	14%	36%	28.4–31.3°C
July	65%	35%	15%	48%	30.1–33.1°C
August	63%	37%	17%	48%	29.5–32.5°C
September	71%	29%	13%	31%	27.3–30.2°C
October	68%	19%	8%	18%	22.4–25.7°C
November	40%	20%	8%	19%	17.1–21.9°C
December	17%	26%	10%	30%	13.2–17.9°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.

1973Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 48-year average. Warmest: 1990. Coolest: 1981.2024

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4459298
NOAA station: USC00315116 · LONGWOOD
Station distance: 12.6 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 29 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 33.90°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 5 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 LONGWOOD is what differs

Calabash→Ash→Big Curve→Bug Hill→Butler Crossroads→Cedar Bay→

Or put two places side by side: Carolina Shores vs Calabash

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