United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Knightdale.

May leads for comfortable weather in Knightdale: typically 26.3°C by day, 13.7°C at night, with 97 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortMay

Typical high26.3°C

Typical low13.7°C

Rain in May97 mm

Comfort

May

May · October · April

76climate match

Beach

June

June · August · July

68climate match

Outdoors

October

October · April · November

79climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 13 against May’s 76 — days reach only 11°C, 13° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to -1.5°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

1311° / -1.5°

Feb

2713.4° / -0.5°

Mar

4017.3° / 3°

Apr

7022.6° / 8.2°

May

7626.3° / 13.7°

Jun

5730° / 18.3°

Jul

4131.8° / 20.6°

Aug

4730.9° / 20°

Sep

6327.8° / 16.6°

Oct

7622.7° / 9.6°

Nov

4617.4° / 3.3°

Dec

2313.1° / 0.3°

Monthly climate evidence for Knightdale — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	11°C	-1.5°C	99 mm	8.9	9 h 59	13	Strong coverage
February	13.4°C	-0.5°C	78 mm	8	10 h 50	27	Strong coverage
March	17.3°C	3°C	111 mm	9	11 h 51	40	Strong coverage
April	22.6°C	8.2°C	95 mm	7.9	13 h 03	70	Strong coverage
May	26.3°C	13.7°C	97 mm	8.4	14 h 02	76	Strong coverage
June	30°C	18.3°C	119 mm	9.4	14 h 34	57	Strong coverage
July	31.8°C	20.6°C	152 mm	10.1	14 h 22	41	Strong coverage
August	30.9°C	20°C	146 mm	9	13 h 31	47	Strong coverage
September	27.8°C	16.6°C	156 mm	7.7	12 h 22	63	Strong coverage
October	22.7°C	9.6°C	84 mm	6.3	11 h 13	76	Strong coverage
November	17.4°C	3.3°C	89 mm	7	10 h 13	46	Strong coverage
December	13.1°C	0.3°C	104 mm	9.1	9 h 45	23	Strong coverage

What has changed

Knightdale 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

+1.0

Feb

+1.7

Mar

+0.2

Apr

+0.2

May

-0.2

Jun

-0.3

Jul

+0.3

Aug

-0.5

Sep

-0.2

Oct

+0.1

Nov

-0.5

Dec

+2.0

May daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 26.3°C.

Records at CLAYTON WTP, 1955–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	27.2°C2 Jan 2022	-23.3°C21 Jan 1985	67 mm11 Jan 2014	223 mm1987 · driest 22 mm in 2004	67
February	28.3°C23 Feb 2023	-15.6°C10 Feb 1979	91 mm7 Feb 2020	225 mm2021 · driest 9 mm in 1991	65
March	32.8°C12 Mar 1990	-11.7°C6 Mar 1960	104 mm17 Mar 2025	201 mm2003 · driest 34 mm in 2006	68
April	36.1°C27 Apr 1990	-4.4°C8 Apr 2007	146 mm25 Apr 2017	263 mm2017 · driest 8 mm in 1976	69
May	35.6°C20 May 1996	0.6°C10 May 1977	132 mm20 May 1983	233 mm1958 · driest 22 mm in 1999	67
June	39.4°C30 Jun 1959	6.7°C8 Jun 1977	141 mm18 Jun 1967	330 mm2013 · driest 11 mm in 1993	67
July	39.4°C9 Jul 1977	11.1°C2 Jul 1975	136 mm28 Jul 1965	382 mm1959 · driest 31 mm in 1976	66
August	41.7°C18 Aug 1988	8.9°C29 Aug 1986	252 mm28 Aug 1995	340 mm2004 · driest 16 mm in 1975	67
September	36.7°C1 Sep 1993	4.4°C30 Sep 1993	241 mm16 Sep 1999	524 mm1999 · driest 10 mm in 1990	68
October	35.6°C4 Oct 2019	-6.7°C27 Oct 1962	192 mm9 Oct 2016	309 mm1959 · driest 0 mm in 2000	68
November	30.0°C8 Nov 2022	-11.1°C24 Nov 1970	110 mm6 Nov 1963	220 mm2006 · driest 6 mm in 1958	66
December	27.2°C9 Dec 1998	-15.0°C24 Dec 1983	76 mm9 Dec 2018	235 mm2018 · driest 1 mm in 1965	69

Typical days per month at CLAYTON WTP, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	<1	0	19	3	1
February	<1	0	16	3	<1
March	4	<1	11	4	<1
April	12	2	1	4	0
May	20	7	0	3	0
June	26	16	0	4	0
July	28	23	0	4	0
August	28	20	0	4	0
September	22	10	0	4	0
October	11	1	<1	2	0
November	2	0	9	3	<1
December	<1	0	17	4	<1

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was October (scoring 82); on 2011–2025 it is May (81). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in CLAYTON WTP’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	7%	27%	10%	31%	8.5–14.1°C
February	13%	31%	13%	38%	9.7–16.1°C
March	29%	29%	12%	31%	14.8–20.5°C
April	58%	25%	11%	25%	20.8–25.1°C
May	67%	29%	11%	35%	24.9–28.5°C
June	71%	29%	11%	36%	28.6–32.0°C
July	68%	33%	15%	42%	30.0–33.6°C
August	71%	29%	13%	32%	29.1–32.3°C
September	75%	24%	11%	25%	26.3–30.0°C
October	62%	20%	8%	20%	21.2–24.6°C
November	33%	22%	9%	21%	15.1–20.7°C
December	10%	27%	10%	31%	10.4–16.0°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.

1956Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 52-year average. Warmest: 2020. Coolest: 2014.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4474527
NOAA station: USC00311820 · CLAYTON WTP
Station distance: 16.4 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 25 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 35.79°, 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 CLAYTON WTP is what differs

Clayton→Wendell→Zebulon→Archer Lodge→Angelview→Brigadoon→

Or put two places side by side: Knightdale vs Clayton

Best time to visitKnightdale.

May

June

October

The whole year,without the guesswork.

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

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Knightdale.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

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

Nearby, measured,
and named.