United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Oconaluftee Indian Village.

September leads for comfortable weather in Oconaluftee Indian Village: typically 26.8°C by day, 11.4°C at night, with 100 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high26.8°C

Typical low11.4°C

Rain in September100 mm

Comfort

September

September · May · June

71climate match

Beach

August

August · July · June

61climate match

Outdoors

October

October · April · May

75climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against September’s 71 — days reach only 9.3°C, 15° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to -4.6°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

59.3° / -4.6°

Feb

911.7° / -3.2°

Mar

2716.1° / -0.1°

Apr

5521.3° / 4.3°

May

7025° / 9.3°

Jun

6628° / 13.6°

Jul

6029.5° / 15.7°

Aug

6629.1° / 14.9°

Sep

7126.8° / 11.4°

Oct

6621.7° / 4.8°

Nov

3216° / -0.8°

Dec

510.8° / -2.9°

Monthly climate evidence for Oconaluftee Indian Village — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	9.3°C	-4.6°C	137 mm	9.2	10 h	5	Strong coverage
February	11.7°C	-3.2°C	123 mm	9	10 h 50	9	Strong coverage
March	16.1°C	-0.1°C	129 mm	10.4	11 h 52	27	Strong coverage
April	21.3°C	4.3°C	116 mm	8.8	13 h 02	55	Strong coverage
May	25°C	9.3°C	108 mm	9.7	14 h 01	70	Strong coverage
June	28°C	13.6°C	117 mm	10.6	14 h 32	66	Strong coverage
July	29.5°C	15.7°C	126 mm	12.2	14 h 20	60	Strong coverage
August	29.1°C	14.9°C	113 mm	10.3	13 h 30	66	Strong coverage
September	26.8°C	11.4°C	100 mm	7.7	12 h 21	71	Strong coverage
October	21.7°C	4.8°C	75 mm	6.1	11 h 14	66	Strong coverage
November	16°C	-0.8°C	101 mm	7.6	10 h 15	32	Strong coverage
December	10.8°C	-2.9°C	133 mm	9.2	9 h 46	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Oconaluftee Indian Village 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

0.0

Feb

+1.8

Mar

+1.0

Apr

+0.6

May

+0.1

Jun

+0.1

Jul

+0.2

Aug

-0.5

Sep

0.0

Oct

+0.3

Nov

+0.1

Dec

+1.3

September daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 25.2°C.

Records at OCONALUFTEE, 1958–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	23.9°C31 Jan 2002	-30.6°C21 Jan 1985	127 mm31 Jan 2010	317 mm1998 · driest 10 mm in 2026	68
February	26.7°C24 Feb 1996	-22.2°C26 Feb 1967	102 mm4 Feb 2022	287 mm2019 · driest 13 mm in 1978	67
March	29.4°C31 Mar 1985	-20.0°C3 Mar 1980	128 mm17 Mar 1990	387 mm1963 · driest 9 mm in 2026	66
April	32.8°C28 Apr 1986	-10.0°C1 Apr 1987	84 mm5 Apr 1977	238 mm1998 · driest 6 mm in 1976	66
May	38.9°C22 May 1996	-5.6°C4 May 1988	81 mm28 May 1973	263 mm1984 · driest 2 mm in 2019	67
June	35.0°C30 Jun 2012	0.0°C1 Jun 1972	84 mm27 Jun 1994	290 mm1994 · driest 25 mm in 2022	66
July	36.7°C9 Jul 1993	4.4°C2 Jul 1988	94 mm13 Jul 1984	250 mm1984 · driest 3 mm in 2006	65
August	37.8°C22 Aug 1983	3.3°C29 Aug 2011	90 mm9 Aug 1991	301 mm1991 · driest 13 mm in 1987	64
September	35.6°C7 Sep 1998	-5.0°C24 Sep 1999	98 mm17 Sep 2004	239 mm2004 · driest 5 mm in 2007	64
October	32.2°C4 Oct 1998	-8.3°C22 Oct 1987	90 mm5 Oct 1972	228 mm1972 · driest 0 mm in 1963	65
November	28.9°C4 Nov 2003	-13.9°C25 Nov 1970	100 mm19 Nov 2003	208 mm1986 · driest 2 mm in 2006	67
December	24.4°C22 Dec 1967	-22.2°C25 Dec 1983	104 mm12 Dec 1961	319 mm1961 · driest 8 mm in 1965	67

Typical days per month at OCONALUFTEE, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	23	4	1
February	<1	0	20	4	1
March	2	0	16	4	<1
April	9	<1	6	4	0
May	19	3	1	3	0
June	25	9	0	4	0
July	28	15	0	4	0
August	28	13	0	4	0
September	22	6	<1	4	0
October	9	<1	7	2	0
November	<1	0	18	3	<1
December	0	0	22	4	<1

How often, not how much — every day in OCONALUFTEE’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%	32%	14%	41%	6.1–11.6°C
February	5%	33%	16%	47%	8.0–14.7°C
March	22%	34%	15%	44%	12.9–18.6°C
April	46%	31%	13%	39%	18.3–23.0°C
May	58%	34%	14%	45%	22.6–26.5°C
June	65%	34%	13%	49%	26.0–29.2°C
July	60%	40%	15%	52%	27.8–30.8°C
August	65%	35%	12%	43%	27.1–30.8°C
September	72%	27%	11%	26%	24.7–28.3°C
October	57%	22%	9%	24%	19.7–23.3°C
November	21%	27%	11%	32%	13.3–18.8°C
December	3%	31%	15%	39%	7.8–13.8°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.

1959Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 55-year average. Warmest: 2016. Coolest: 1997.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4483139
NOAA station: USC00316341 · OCONALUFTEE
Station distance: 3.6 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 27 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 35.49°, 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 OCONALUFTEE is what differs

Cherokee→Birdtown→Indian Hills→Olivet→Paint Town→Qualla→

Or put two places side by side: Oconaluftee Indian Village vs Cherokee

Best time to visitOconaluftee Indian Village.

September

August

October

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Oconaluftee Indian Village runs +0.4°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Oconaluftee Indian Village.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Oconaluftee Indian Village runs +0.4°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.