United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Rutherford College.

May leads for comfortable weather in Rutherford College: typically 25.5°C by day, 13.5°C at night, with 98 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortMay

Typical high25.5°C

Typical low13.5°C

Rain in May98 mm

Comfort

May

May · September · October

78climate match

Beach

August

August · June · July

72climate match

Outdoors

October

October · April · November

81climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 12 against May’s 78 — days reach only 9.8°C, 14° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to -1°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

129.8° / -1°

Feb

2412.1° / 0.5°

Mar

4016.2° / 4.2°

Apr

6521.4° / 8.7°

May

7825.5° / 13.5°

Jun

6129.4° / 18°

Jul

5131.1° / 20°

Aug

5530.2° / 19.4°

Sep

7626.9° / 16.1°

Oct

7221.6° / 9.5°

Nov

4215.9° / 3.8°

Dec

1911.2° / 0.5°

Monthly climate evidence for Rutherford College — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	9.8°C	-1°C	95 mm	7.8	9 h 59	12	Strong coverage
February	12.1°C	0.5°C	80 mm	7.4	10 h 50	24	Strong coverage
March	16.2°C	4.2°C	105 mm	8.8	11 h 51	40	Strong coverage
April	21.4°C	8.7°C	107 mm	8.6	13 h 03	65	Strong coverage
May	25.5°C	13.5°C	98 mm	8.7	14 h 02	78	Strong coverage
June	29.4°C	18°C	110 mm	8.8	14 h 34	61	Strong coverage
July	31.1°C	20°C	109 mm	9.5	14 h 21	51	Strong coverage
August	30.2°C	19.4°C	116 mm	8.5	13 h 30	55	Strong coverage
September	26.9°C	16.1°C	98 mm	7	12 h 22	76	Strong coverage
October	21.6°C	9.5°C	89 mm	6.1	11 h 13	72	Strong coverage
November	15.9°C	3.8°C	93 mm	6.6	10 h 14	42	Strong coverage
December	11.2°C	0.5°C	98 mm	7.3	9 h 45	19	Strong coverage

What has changed

Rutherford College runs +1.0°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

+2.5

Mar

+1.1

Apr

+0.7

May

+0.6

Jun

+0.9

Jul

+1.3

Aug

+0.2

Sep

+0.9

Oct

+1.0

Nov

+0.2

Dec

+1.8

May daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 24.4°C.

Records at HICKORY FAA AP, 1949–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	26.7°C10 Jan 1949	-22.2°C21 Jan 1985	98 mm22 Jan 1954	217 mm2024 · driest 11 mm in 1981	78
February	28.3°C12 Feb 2017	-16.7°C18 Feb 1958	135 mm6 Feb 2020	233 mm2020 · driest 11 mm in 1978	78
March	30.0°C27 Mar 2026	-12.8°C3 Mar 1980	98 mm29 Mar 1991	300 mm1975 · driest 22 mm in 2016	77
April	33.3°C27 Apr 1981	-6.7°C9 Apr 1972	70 mm10 Apr 2003	234 mm2003 · driest 3 mm in 1976	77
May	36.1°C25 May 1953	-1.1°C8 May 1989	79 mm14 May 2012	222 mm1975 · driest 5 mm in 1951	78
June	40.0°C27 Jun 1954	5.0°C11 Jun 1972	127 mm20 Jun 1967	298 mm1957 · driest 16 mm in 1986	78
July	40.6°C28 Jul 1952	10.0°C10 Jul 1961	132 mm27 Jul 2013	411 mm2013 · driest 2 mm in 1983	78
August	40.0°C9 Aug 2007	7.2°C29 Aug 1986	118 mm9 Aug 1970	372 mm2020 · driest 12 mm in 1963	77
September	37.2°C6 Sep 1954	1.7°C30 Sep 1967	114 mm26 Sep 1956	277 mm1979 · driest 1 mm in 1985	76
October	35.6°C5 Oct 1954	-4.4°C27 Oct 1962	160 mm7 Oct 2005	294 mm1990 · driest 0 mm in 2000	76
November	29.4°C9 Nov 2023	-12.2°C25 Nov 1950	109 mm12 Nov 2020	204 mm2020 · driest 9 mm in 2021	76
December	25.6°C3 Dec 2021	-17.2°C13 Dec 1962	97 mm28 Dec 1958	228 mm1961 · driest 5 mm in 1965	76

Typical days per month at HICKORY FAA AP, 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	15	3	<1
March	2	0	8	4	<1
April	9	<1	<1	4	0
May	20	5	0	3	0
June	27	15	0	3	0
July	30	22	0	3	0
August	29	18	0	4	0
September	21	8	0	3	0
October	8	<1	<1	3	0
November	<1	0	8	3	0
December	<1	0	17	4	<1

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was September (scoring 82); on 2011–2025 it is May (80). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in HICKORY FAA 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%	25%	10%	27%	7.1–12.2°C
February	9%	28%	12%	32%	8.6–14.3°C
March	23%	29%	12%	32%	13.1–18.5°C
April	52%	26%	11%	28%	19.6–23.4°C
May	67%	29%	11%	36%	23.3–27.1°C
June	71%	29%	11%	35%	27.1–31.0°C
July	69%	31%	12%	39%	28.9–32.7°C
August	72%	28%	12%	32%	28.3–31.6°C
September	75%	23%	11%	23%	25.1–28.8°C
October	57%	20%	9%	20%	19.7–23.7°C
November	22%	21%	9%	19%	13.7–18.2°C
December	5%	24%	11%	26%	8.3–13.4°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.

1949Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 75-year average. Warmest: 2024. Coolest: 1976.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4489354
NOAA station: USW00003810 · HICKORY FAA AP
Station distance: 12.7 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 28 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 35.75°, 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 HICKORY FAA AP is what differs

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May

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The whole year,without the guesswork.

Rutherford College runs +1.0°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Rutherford College.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Rutherford College runs +1.0°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.