United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Cove.

September leads for comfortable weather in Cove: typically 23.8°C by day, 10°C at night, with 102 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high23.8°C

Typical low10°C

Rain in September102 mm

Comfort

September

September · August · May

77climate match

Beach

August

August · July · June

57climate match

Outdoors

October

October · September · April

82climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against September’s 77 — days reach only 8.2°C, 16° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to -4.8°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

58.2° / -4.8°

Feb

1010.6° / -3.5°

Mar

2414.9° / -0.4°

Apr

5119.6° / 3.5°

May

6923° / 8°

Jun

6925.7° / 12.1°

Jul

6927.1° / 14°

Aug

7426.9° / 14°

Sep

7723.8° / 10°

Oct

6119.8° / 3.2°

Nov

3114.3° / -1.1°

Dec

59° / -3.9°

Monthly climate evidence for Cove — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	8.2°C	-4.8°C	107 mm	8.1	9 h 59	5	Good coverage
February	10.6°C	-3.5°C	99 mm	7.3	10 h 50	10	Good coverage
March	14.9°C	-0.4°C	127 mm	9.2	11 h 51	24	Good coverage
April	19.6°C	3.5°C	96 mm	9.3	13 h 03	51	Good coverage
May	23°C	8°C	102 mm	9	14 h 02	69	Good coverage
June	25.7°C	12.1°C	128 mm	10.5	14 h 33	69	Good coverage
July	27.1°C	14°C	128 mm	10.2	14 h 21	69	Good coverage
August	26.9°C	14°C	98 mm	9.2	13 h 30	74	Good coverage
September	23.8°C	10°C	102 mm	6.9	12 h 22	77	Good coverage
October	19.8°C	3.2°C	53 mm	5	11 h 13	61	Good coverage
November	14.3°C	-1.1°C	73 mm	6.2	10 h 14	31	Good coverage
December	9°C	-3.9°C	101 mm	7.7	9 h 45	5	Good coverage

Records at CATALOOCHEE, 1965–2012
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	21.7°C28 Jan 1999	-28.9°C21 Jan 1985	64 mm20 Jan 2001	224 mm1974 · driest 0 mm in 2011	44
February	24.4°C24 Feb 1996	-24.4°C1 Feb 1966	72 mm16 Feb 1990	230 mm1990 · driest 11 mm in 2002	44
March	31.1°C22 Mar 1968	-17.8°C15 Mar 1993	84 mm30 Mar 1975	313 mm1975 · driest 11 mm in 2006	43
April	30.0°C11 Apr 1995	-9.4°C8 Apr 2007	67 mm5 Apr 1977	209 mm1998 · driest 24 mm in 1995	44
May	31.7°C28 May 2000	-3.3°C18 May 1973	77 mm29 May 1976	225 mm1974 · driest 1 mm in 2005	47
June	33.3°C30 Jun 2012	-1.1°C1 Jun 1966	83 mm4 Jun 1967	185 mm1991 · driest 0 mm in 2010	46
July	34.4°C25 Jul 2003	3.3°C2 Jul 1988	66 mm12 Jul 2002	226 mm2001 · driest 20 mm in 2010	45
August	33.9°C22 Aug 1983	4.4°C9 Aug 2004	75 mm17 Aug 1994	234 mm1967 · driest 7 mm in 2010	44
September	31.7°C9 Sep 2002	-2.2°C30 Sep 1967	80 mm8 Sep 1977	207 mm1989 · driest 0 mm in 2007	42
October	28.3°C13 Oct 1985	-7.2°C29 Oct 1976	53 mm19 Oct 1966	141 mm1990 · driest 2 mm in 2000	42
November	26.1°C3 Nov 2003	-15.6°C25 Nov 1970	70 mm22 Nov 1991	153 mm1979 · driest 2 mm in 2007	42
December	22.2°C8 Dec 1998	-22.2°C25 Dec 1983	59 mm24 Dec 1998	199 mm2002 · driest 0 mm in 2010	43

Typical days per month at CATALOOCHEE, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	21	4	<1
February	0	0	19	4	<1
March	<1	0	14	4	<1
April	5	<1	8	3	<1
May	9	<1	1	3	0
June	15	<1	0	4	0
July	20	3	0	3	0
August	19	3	0	3	0
September	10	<1	<1	3	0
October	2	0	8	2	<1
November	<1	0	17	2	0
December	0	0	20	3	<1

How often, not how much — every day in CATALOOCHEE’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	<1%	30%	12%	37%	3.7–11.1°C
February	2%	32%	14%	41%	6.9–12.4°C
March	15%	34%	14%	46%	11.5–17.3°C
April	34%	34%	12%	44%	17.0–22.0°C
May	49%	34%	12%	47%	20.8–24.6°C
June	62%	35%	13%	45%	24.4–27.1°C
July	61%	40%	14%	52%	25.7–28.8°C
August	62%	35%	12%	45%	25.4–28.3°C
September	65%	25%	9%	27%	22.5–25.4°C
October	43%	21%	7%	21%	17.9–21.3°C
November	13%	26%	10%	27%	11.9–16.8°C
December	1%	28%	12%	33%	6.6–11.9°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.

1966Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 25-year average. Warmest: 1990. Coolest: 1978.2008

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4462093
NOAA station: USC00311564 · CATALOOCHEE
Station distance: 14.7 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 15 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 35.68°, 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 CATALOOCHEE is what differs

Cove Creek→Cataloochee→Fines Creek→Hepco (historical)→Nellie→Ola→

Or put two places side by side: Cove vs Cove Creek

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