United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Charlotte.

May leads for comfortable weather in Charlotte: typically 26.7°C by day, 14.5°C at night, with 85 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortMay

Typical high26.7°C

Typical low14.5°C

Rain in May85 mm

Comfort

May

May · October · April

79climate match

Beach

July

July · June · August

75climate match

Outdoors

October

October · April · November

80climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 18 against May’s 79 — days reach only 11.2°C, 13° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to -0.1°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

1811.2° / -0.1°

Feb

3113.6° / 1.6°

Mar

4717.8° / 5.1°

Apr

7322.8° / 9.5°

May

7926.7° / 14.5°

Jun

5730.4° / 19°

Jul

4932.3° / 21°

Aug

5131.3° / 20.4°

Sep

7228.1° / 17°

Oct

7922.9° / 10.2°

Nov

4817.1° / 4.3°

Dec

2612.6° / 1.4°

Monthly climate evidence for Charlotte — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	11.2°C	-0.1°C	89 mm	8.3	10 h 01	18	Strong coverage
February	13.6°C	1.6°C	79 mm	7.8	10 h 51	31	Strong coverage
March	17.8°C	5.1°C	100 mm	8.8	11 h 52	47	Strong coverage
April	22.8°C	9.5°C	98 mm	7.7	13 h 02	73	Strong coverage
May	26.7°C	14.5°C	85 mm	7.8	14 h	79	Strong coverage
June	30.4°C	19°C	101 mm	8.6	14 h 31	57	Strong coverage
July	32.3°C	21°C	95 mm	7.8	14 h 19	49	Strong coverage
August	31.3°C	20.4°C	111 mm	8.1	13 h 29	51	Strong coverage
September	28.1°C	17°C	94 mm	6	12 h 21	72	Strong coverage
October	22.9°C	10.2°C	80 mm	5.5	11 h 14	79	Strong coverage
November	17.1°C	4.3°C	84 mm	6.7	10 h 16	48	Strong coverage
December	12.6°C	1.4°C	91 mm	7.7	9 h 48	26	Strong coverage

What has changed

Charlotte runs +1.6°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

+1.8

Feb

+2.9

Mar

+1.6

Apr

+1.2

May

+1.1

Jun

+1.6

Jul

+1.9

Aug

+0.8

Sep

+1.3

Oct

+1.7

Nov

+0.8

Dec

+2.6

May daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 25.9°C.

Records at CHARLOTTE DOUGLAS AP, 1939–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	26.1°C29 Jan 2002	-20.6°C21 Jan 1985	88 mm6 Jan 1962	189 mm1962 · driest 12 mm in 1981	85
February	28.3°C20 Feb 2026	-15.0°C18 Feb 1958	80 mm6 Feb 2020	193 mm1979 · driest 19 mm in 1978	85
March	32.2°C17 Mar 1945	-15.6°C3 Mar 1980	77 mm3 Mar 1952	223 mm1980 · driest 15 mm in 1985	85
April	33.9°C24 Apr 1960	-6.1°C8 Apr 2007	81 mm11 Apr 1962	210 mm2003 · driest 8 mm in 1976	85
May	37.8°C29 May 1941	0.0°C2 May 1963	93 mm3 May 1975	317 mm1975 · driest 3 mm in 1941	85
June	40.0°C29 Jun 2012	7.2°C12 Jun 1972	96 mm13 Jun 1949	210 mm1961 · driest 4 mm in 1993	85
July	40.0°C1 Jul 2012	11.7°C10 Jul 1961	175 mm23 Jul 1997	269 mm1939 · driest 14 mm in 1983	86
August	40.0°C9 Aug 2007	10.0°C7 Aug 2004	136 mm26 Aug 2008	263 mm2003 · driest 11 mm in 2007	85
September	40.0°C6 Sep 1954	3.9°C23 Sep 1999	109 mm16 Sep 2018	265 mm1945 · driest 1 mm in 1954	85
October	37.2°C2 Oct 2019	-4.4°C27 Oct 1962	107 mm4 Oct 1992	374 mm1990 · driest 0 mm in 1953	85
November	29.4°C2 Nov 1961	-11.7°C26 Nov 1950	117 mm12 Nov 2020	255 mm2015 · driest 12 mm in 1973	85
December	26.7°C10 Dec 2007	-16.7°C13 Dec 1962	63 mm15 Dec 1972	221 mm2015 · driest 11 mm in 1965	85

Typical days per month at CHARLOTTE DOUGLAS AP, 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	12	3	<1
March	4	<1	6	3	<1
April	12	2	<1	3	0
May	22	8	0	3	0
June	28	19	0	3	0
July	31	26	0	3	0
August	30	23	0	4	0
September	24	11	0	3	0
October	11	1	1	2	0
November	1	0	7	3	0
December	<1	0	14	3	<1

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was May (scoring 83); on 2011–2025 it is October (87). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in CHARLOTTE DOUGLAS AP’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	6%	27%	10%	29%	8.0–14.0°C
February	11%	29%	11%	34%	9.9–15.7°C
March	28%	29%	12%	31%	14.3–20.3°C
April	58%	24%	9%	26%	20.9–24.6°C
May	71%	26%	10%	29%	24.4–28.9°C
June	73%	26%	10%	29%	28.1–32.4°C
July	71%	29%	11%	35%	30.0–33.8°C
August	74%	26%	11%	27%	29.1–32.7°C
September	78%	20%	9%	18%	26.2–30.2°C
October	64%	18%	7%	17%	20.7–24.9°C
November	27%	22%	9%	21%	14.7–19.2°C
December	7%	25%	10%	28%	9.2–14.8°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.

1940Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 84-year average. Warmest: 1990. Coolest: 1969.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4460243
NOAA station: USW00013881 · CHARLOTTE DOUGLAS AP
Station distance: 10.1 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 30 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 35.23°, 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 CHARLOTTE DOUGLAS AP is what differs

Huntersville→Mount Holly→Belmont→Pineville→Croft→Allen Hills→

Or put two places side by side: Charlotte vs Huntersville

Best time to visitCharlotte.

May

July

October

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Charlotte runs +1.6°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Charlotte.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Charlotte runs +1.6°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.