United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Nags Head.

May leads for comfortable weather in Nags Head: typically 24.2°C by day, 15.3°C at night, with 92 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortMay

Typical high24.2°C

Typical low15.3°C

Rain in May92 mm

Comfort

May

May · October · April

88climate match

Beach

June

June · September · August

79climate match

Outdoors

April

April · November · October

87climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 21 against May’s 88 — days reach only 11°C, 13° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal.

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

2111° / 2.3°

Feb

3012.3° / 3°

Mar

4315.5° / 6°

Apr

7320.5° / 10.8°

May

8824.2° / 15.3°

Jun

6028.5° / 20.5°

Jul

4630.5° / 22.9°

Aug

5129.7° / 22.4°

Sep

6826.9° / 20.3°

Oct

8522.5° / 14.6°

Nov

6017.1° / 8.6°

Dec

3513.3° / 4.9°

Monthly climate evidence for Nags Head — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 19 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	11°C	2.3°C	104 mm	7	9.5°C	9 h 58	21	Strong coverage
February	12.3°C	3°C	81 mm	6.8	8.0°C	10 h 49	30	Strong coverage
March	15.5°C	6°C	101 mm	7.2	9.0°C	11 h 51	43	Strong coverage
April	20.5°C	10.8°C	72 mm	6.2	12.7°C	13 h 03	73	Strong coverage
May	24.2°C	15.3°C	92 mm	6.6	17.6°C	14 h 03	88	Strong coverage
June	28.5°C	20.5°C	114 mm	7.2	22.6°C	14 h 35	60	Strong coverage
July	30.5°C	22.9°C	135 mm	8.3	25.5°C	14 h 22	46	Strong coverage
August	29.7°C	22.4°C	130 mm	7.6	25.8°C	13 h 31	51	Strong coverage
September	26.9°C	20.3°C	110 mm	6	24.4°C	12 h 22	68	Strong coverage
October	22.5°C	14.6°C	85 mm	5.3	20.8°C	11 h 13	85	Strong coverage
November	17.1°C	8.6°C	65 mm	5.2	16.2°C	10 h 13	60	Strong coverage
December	13.3°C	4.9°C	92 mm	6.4	12.5°C	9 h 44	35	Strong coverage

What has changed

Nags Head runs -0.4°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

-0.8

Feb

+0.7

Mar

-0.6

Apr

-0.5

May

-0.3

Jun

-0.2

Jul

-0.3

Aug

-0.9

Sep

-0.8

Oct

-0.1

Nov

-1.1

Dec

-0.3

May daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 25.3°C.

Records at MANTEO AP, 1945–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	25.0°C28 Jan 1974	-18.9°C21 Jan 1985	109 mm20 Jan 1978	247 mm2014 · driest 33 mm in 1984	56
February	27.2°C24 Feb 2023	-12.2°C20 Feb 2015	149 mm3 Feb 1970	196 mm1970 · driest 14 mm in 2009	59
March	30.6°C31 Mar 1985	-12.2°C13 Mar 1984	117 mm19 Mar 1998	254 mm2024 · driest 20 mm in 2016	59
April	33.9°C27 Apr 1990	-5.0°C22 Apr 1984	76 mm15 Apr 2007	217 mm1983 · driest 19 mm in 2014	59
May	35.0°C29 May 2019	1.1°C11 May 1966	100 mm25 May 1977	317 mm1966 · driest 1 mm in 1991	57
June	38.3°C24 Jun 2010	6.7°C12 Jun 1972	107 mm6 Jun 1995	244 mm1996 · driest 14 mm in 2003	59
July	38.3°C29 Jul 2011	7.2°C2 Jul 1984	152 mm11 Jul 2025	387 mm2018 · driest 13 mm in 1995	60
August	38.3°C12 Aug 1998	10.0°C3 Aug 1985	142 mm28 Aug 2011	408 mm1986 · driest 29 mm in 1968	58
September	35.6°C12 Sep 1983	7.8°C30 Sep 1970	152 mm1 Sep 2006	264 mm1999 · driest 9 mm in 2013	58
October	33.9°C9 Oct 2007	1.1°C30 Oct 1976	180 mm29 Oct 2012	369 mm1971 · driest 10 mm in 2000	59
November	28.9°C3 Nov 1971	-3.9°C24 Nov 1976	111 mm5 Nov 2008	281 mm1985 · driest 6 mm in 2001	58
December	27.2°C9 Dec 1978	-8.9°C20 Dec 2004	74 mm23 Dec 2006	177 mm1983 · driest 8 mm in 1988	58

Typical days per month at MANTEO AP, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	0	0	11	4
February	<1	0	7	3
March	<1	0	3	3
April	5	<1	<1	2
May	14	2	0	3
June	24	10	0	4
July	28	16	0	4
August	28	13	0	4
September	22	4	0	3
October	8	<1	0	2
November	<1	0	<1	2
December	<1	0	4	3

How often, not how much — every day in MANTEO 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	4%	26%	13%	26%	8.3–14.0°C
February	6%	27%	11%	28%	8.9–15.1°C
March	21%	25%	12%	25%	13.5–17.9°C
April	49%	22%	9%	20%	18.6–22.7°C
May	64%	26%	11%	28%	22.9–26.1°C
June	74%	25%	12%	26%	27.0–29.8°C
July	71%	29%	14%	35%	29.2–32.1°C
August	73%	27%	14%	29%	28.3–31.7°C
September	78%	21%	11%	19%	25.9–28.5°C
October	61%	19%	8%	17%	21.0–24.1°C
November	26%	20%	8%	16%	15.4–19.4°C
December	10%	23%	10%	21%	11.1–16.1°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.

1967Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 43-year average. Warmest: 2019. Coolest: 2014.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4481427
NOAA station: USW00013766 · MANTEO AP
Station distance: 8.2 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 26 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 35.96°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 19 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 MANTEO AP is what differs

Kill Devil Hills→Kitty Hawk→Southern Shores→Wanchese→Manteo→Manns Harbor→

Or put two places side by side: Nags Head vs Kill Devil Hills

Best time to visitNags Head.

May

June

April

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Nags Head runs -0.4°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Nags Head.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nags Head runs -0.4°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.