United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Gastonia.

October leads for comfortable weather in Gastonia: typically 23°C by day, 10.6°C at night, with 81 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortOctober

Typical high23°C

Typical low10.6°C

Rain in October81 mm

Comfort

October

October · May · April

80climate match

Beach

July

July · September · August

76climate match

Outdoors

October

October · April · November

79climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 19 against October’s 80 — days reach only 11.5°C, 12° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to -0.3°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

1911.5° / -0.3°

Feb

3013.7° / 1.2°

Mar

5017.9° / 4.8°

Apr

7522.9° / 9.6°

May

7826.6° / 14.5°

Jun

5730.4° / 19.1°

Jul

5132.2° / 21.2°

Aug

5031.4° / 20.7°

Sep

7028.4° / 17.4°

Oct

8023° / 10.6°

Nov

5217.4° / 4.5°

Dec

2612.7° / 1.2°

Monthly climate evidence for Gastonia — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	11.5°C	-0.3°C	94 mm	7.5	10 h 01	19	Strong coverage
February	13.7°C	1.2°C	83 mm	7.4	10 h 51	30	Strong coverage
March	17.9°C	4.8°C	88 mm	7.8	11 h 52	50	Strong coverage
April	22.9°C	9.6°C	89 mm	7.2	13 h 02	75	Strong coverage
May	26.6°C	14.5°C	91 mm	7.6	14 h	78	Strong coverage
June	30.4°C	19.1°C	108 mm	8.3	14 h 31	57	Strong coverage
July	32.2°C	21.2°C	83 mm	8	14 h 19	51	Strong coverage
August	31.4°C	20.7°C	111 mm	7.9	13 h 29	50	Strong coverage
September	28.4°C	17.4°C	90 mm	6.2	12 h 21	70	Strong coverage
October	23°C	10.6°C	81 mm	5.4	11 h 14	80	Strong coverage
November	17.4°C	4.5°C	67 mm	5.8	10 h 16	52	Strong coverage
December	12.7°C	1.2°C	92 mm	7.3	9 h 47	26	Strong coverage

What has changed

Gastonia 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

+0.5

Feb

+1.1

Mar

0.0

Apr

-0.2

May

-0.6

Jun

+0.3

Jul

+0.6

Aug

-0.3

Sep

+0.3

Oct

+0.6

Nov

-0.2

Dec

+1.1

October daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 22.0°C.

Records at GASTONIA, 1890–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	26.1°C31 Jan 1975	-20.6°C21 Jan 1985	80 mm19 Jan 1936	271 mm1996 · driest 18 mm in 2008	97
February	27.2°C28 Feb 2011	-15.6°C17 Feb 1958	77 mm7 Feb 2020	250 mm1960 · driest 7 mm in 1968	95
March	31.1°C19 Mar 2011	-18.3°C3 Mar 1980	104 mm3 Mar 1952	262 mm1952 · driest 9 mm in 2025	95
April	33.3°C30 Apr 1962	-3.9°C10 Apr 1972	85 mm6 Apr 1936	240 mm1958 · driest 9 mm in 1976	96
May	37.2°C22 May 1941	-0.6°C11 May 1966	117 mm30 May 1975	321 mm1975 · driest 2 mm in 1936	96
June	41.7°C27 Jun 1954	4.4°C2 Jun 1966	74 mm26 Jun 2004	272 mm1995 · driest 0 mm in 1993	95
July	41.1°C28 Jul 1952	12.2°C5 Jul 1967	130 mm21 Jul 2024	306 mm2024 · driest 9 mm in 1983	95
August	40.0°C21 Aug 1983	9.4°C30 Aug 1986	155 mm27 Aug 2008	355 mm1952 · driest 19 mm in 1997	94
September	38.3°C6 Sep 1954	1.1°C30 Sep 1967	103 mm7 Sep 1942	290 mm1945 · driest 0 mm in 2019	92
October	36.7°C3 Oct 2019	-3.9°C27 Oct 1962	118 mm7 Oct 1949	288 mm1990 · driest 0 mm in 1991	93
November	29.4°C2 Nov 1974	-11.7°C25 Nov 1970	100 mm28 Nov 1948	220 mm1948 · driest 8 mm in 2025	93
December	26.7°C18 Dec 1984	-16.1°C25 Dec 1983	109 mm28 Dec 1958	319 mm1931 · driest 8 mm in 2007	93

Typical days per month at GASTONIA, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	<1	0	17	3
February	<1	0	13	3
March	4	<1	7	3
April	12	1	<1	3
May	22	7	0	3
June	28	18	0	4
July	30	25	0	3
August	30	22	0	3
September	24	12	0	3
October	12	1	<1	2
November	2	0	7	2
December	<1	0	15	3

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was April (scoring 80); on 2011–2025 it is October (86). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in GASTONIA’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%	26%	11%	29%	8.8–14.5°C
February	12%	28%	12%	33%	10.6–16.1°C
March	30%	28%	12%	31%	15.2–20.7°C
April	61%	25%	10%	27%	21.3–25.2°C
May	72%	26%	10%	29%	25.0–29.1°C
June	73%	27%	11%	33%	28.9–32.6°C
July	70%	30%	11%	37%	30.5–33.8°C
August	73%	27%	11%	28%	29.7–33.3°C
September	79%	21%	9%	19%	26.7–30.7°C
October	67%	18%	8%	17%	21.3–24.9°C
November	29%	21%	8%	21%	14.9–19.6°C
December	7%	26%	11%	29%	9.7–15.1°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.

1931Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 81-year average. Warmest: 2019. Coolest: 1967.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4467732
NOAA station: USC00313356 · GASTONIA
Station distance: 4 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 27 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 35.26°, 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 GASTONIA is what differs

Bessemer City→Dallas→Cramerton→Westport→Stanley→Lowell→

Or put two places side by side: Gastonia vs Bessemer City

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October

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October

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Gastonia runs +0.3°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Gastonia.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Gastonia runs +0.3°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.