United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Rockfish.

October leads for comfortable weather in Rockfish: typically 23.3°C by day, 9°C at night, with 76 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortOctober

Typical high23.3°C

Typical low9°C

Rain in October76 mm

Comfort

October

October · April · May

78climate match

Beach

June

June · July · August

65climate match

Outdoors

October

October · April · November

77climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 17 against October’s 78 — days reach only 12.1°C, 12° 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

1712.1° / -1.5°

Feb

2613.7° / -1°

Mar

4618.5° / 3°

Apr

7523.6° / 7.9°

May

7527.2° / 13°

Jun

5330.8° / 18.5°

Jul

4332.5° / 20.7°

Aug

4731.7° / 19.8°

Sep

6528.6° / 16.2°

Oct

7823.3° / 9°

Nov

5018.3° / 3.3°

Dec

2713.4° / -0.2°

Monthly climate evidence for Rockfish — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	12.1°C	-1.5°C	99 mm	8.8	10 h 02	17	Good coverage
February	13.7°C	-1°C	86 mm	7.7	10 h 52	26	Good coverage
March	18.5°C	3°C	100 mm	8.2	11 h 52	46	Good coverage
April	23.6°C	7.9°C	85 mm	7.4	13 h 01	75	Good coverage
May	27.2°C	13°C	86 mm	7	13 h 59	75	Good coverage
June	30.8°C	18.5°C	125 mm	9.1	14 h 30	53	Good coverage
July	32.5°C	20.7°C	126 mm	9.8	14 h 18	43	Good coverage
August	31.7°C	19.8°C	127 mm	9.5	13 h 28	47	Good coverage
September	28.6°C	16.2°C	135 mm	6.9	12 h 21	65	Good coverage
October	23.3°C	9°C	76 mm	6.6	11 h 14	78	Good coverage
November	18.3°C	3.3°C	85 mm	6.2	10 h 17	50	Good coverage
December	13.4°C	-0.2°C	81 mm	8.1	9 h 49	27	Good coverage

Records at RAEFORD, 1992–2015
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	26.7°C24 Jan 1999	-15.6°C30 Jan 2014	65 mm15 Jan 1995	208 mm2000 · driest 32 mm in 2011	23
February	29.4°C28 Feb 1997	-16.7°C6 Feb 1996	76 mm12 Feb 2014	173 mm1998 · driest 35 mm in 2009	22
March	30.6°C25 Mar 2007	-10.0°C9 Mar 1999	77 mm9 Mar 1998	163 mm1998 · driest 14 mm in 2004	22
April	34.4°C18 Apr 2002	-4.4°C8 Apr 2007	58 mm22 Apr 2012	166 mm1998 · driest 24 mm in 2010	22
May	36.7°C20 May 1996	2.2°C19 May 2009	129 mm26 May 2003	228 mm2003 · driest 28 mm in 2007	22
June	40.6°C28 Jun 1998	7.8°C5 Jun 1997	89 mm7 Jun 2013	350 mm2013 · driest 36 mm in 1998	22
July	39.4°C2 Jul 2012	11.7°C5 Jul 1996	87 mm30 Jul 2003	260 mm2003 · driest 44 mm in 2014	23
August	40.6°C11 Aug 2007	10.6°C7 Aug 2004	115 mm30 Aug 2004	273 mm2004 · driest 23 mm in 1997	23
September	37.2°C2 Sep 1993	5.0°C24 Sep 1999	153 mm6 Sep 2008	342 mm1999 · driest 18 mm in 1992	23
October	33.9°C10 Oct 2007	-3.3°C20 Oct 1992	90 mm18 Oct 1999	189 mm1995 · driest 0 mm in 2000	23
November	30.6°C16 Nov 1993	-10.0°C20 Nov 2014	79 mm22 Nov 2006	213 mm2006 · driest 15 mm in 2007	23
December	28.3°C7 Dec 1998	-11.1°C31 Dec 1993	42 mm24 Dec 2014	130 mm2009 · driest 21 mm in 2001	22

Typical days per month at RAEFORD, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	<1	0	20	3	<1
February	<1	0	17	3	<1
March	5	<1	10	3	0
April	13	3	2	3	0
May	22	9	0	3	0
June	27	19	0	4	0
July	29	25	0	4	0
August	29	23	0	4	0
September	25	13	0	3	0
October	13	2	1	2	0
November	3	0	10	3	0
December	<1	0	19	3	<1

How often, not how much — every day in RAEFORD’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	9%	28%	11%	30%	9.5–14.5°C
February	15%	27%	10%	32%	10.9–16.2°C
March	34%	27%	11%	27%	16.2–21.8°C
April	60%	25%	10%	23%	22.0–25.4°C
May	74%	23%	8%	20%	25.2–28.9°C
June	71%	30%	13%	33%	29.0–32.3°C
July	69%	32%	13%	40%	30.4–34.2°C
August	70%	31%	13%	34%	29.9–34.0°C
September	77%	23%	11%	22%	27.2–30.7°C
October	63%	21%	7%	24%	21.7–25.4°C
November	31%	21%	9%	15%	15.8–21.6°C
December	10%	26%	10%	30%	11.2–15.9°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.

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4488532
NOAA station: USC00317056 · RAEFORD
Station distance: 13.9 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 21 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 34.99°, 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 RAEFORD is what differs

Raeford→Silver City→Vass→Five Points→Ashley Heights→Shannon→

Or put two places side by side: Rockfish vs Raeford

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October

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Rockfish.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.