United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
South Mills.

October leads for comfortable weather in South Mills: typically 23.6°C by day, 12°C at night, with 96 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortOctober

Typical high23.6°C

Typical low12°C

Rain in October96 mm

Comfort

October

October · May · April

82climate match

Beach

June

June · August · September

73climate match

Outdoors

April

April · November · October

76climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 20 against October’s 82 — days reach only 12.1°C, 12° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to 0.1°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

2012.1° / 0.1°

Feb

2813.6° / 0.8°

Mar

4417.4° / 4.2°

Apr

7322.6° / 9.3°

May

7726.3° / 14.1°

Jun

5730° / 19.3°

Jul

4031.7° / 21.9°

Aug

4730.9° / 21°

Sep

6328.1° / 18.3°

Oct

8223.6° / 12°

Nov

5218° / 5.8°

Dec

2813.7° / 2°

Monthly climate evidence for South Mills — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	12.1°C	0.1°C	95 mm	8.8	9 h 55	20	Strong coverage
February	13.6°C	0.8°C	86 mm	8	10 h 48	28	Strong coverage
March	17.4°C	4.2°C	104 mm	9.2	11 h 51	44	Strong coverage
April	22.6°C	9.3°C	88 mm	7.8	13 h 04	73	Strong coverage
May	26.3°C	14.1°C	102 mm	8.4	14 h 05	77	Strong coverage
June	30°C	19.3°C	116 mm	8	14 h 38	57	Strong coverage
July	31.7°C	21.9°C	151 mm	9.5	14 h 25	40	Strong coverage
August	30.9°C	21°C	136 mm	8.9	13 h 33	47	Strong coverage
September	28.1°C	18.3°C	130 mm	8.1	12 h 22	63	Strong coverage
October	23.6°C	12°C	96 mm	6.1	11 h 12	82	Strong coverage
November	18°C	5.8°C	90 mm	7.1	10 h 11	52	Strong coverage
December	13.7°C	2°C	102 mm	8.4	9 h 41	28	Strong coverage

What has changed

South Mills runs +1.2°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

+2.0

Feb

+3.1

Mar

+1.4

Apr

+1.5

May

+0.8

Jun

+0.7

Jul

+0.6

Aug

+0.1

Sep

+0.4

Oct

+1.3

Nov

+0.1

Dec

+1.8

October daytime highs, 2012–2025. Last recorded: 21.9°C.

Records at ELIZABETH CITY, 1911–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	26.7°C15 Jan 1937	-18.9°C21 Jan 1985	85 mm3 Jan 1936	274 mm1987 · driest 13 mm in 1931	110
February	28.9°C23 Feb 2023	-15.0°C5 Feb 1996	96 mm1 Feb 1960	237 mm1922 · driest 17 mm in 1947	112
March	33.3°C17 Mar 1945	-11.7°C14 Mar 1993	94 mm2 Mar 1994	251 mm2024 · driest 25 mm in 1945	113
April	35.0°C26 Apr 1925	-8.3°C15 Apr 2004	118 mm20 Apr 1991	212 mm1918 · driest 8 mm in 1942	111
May	38.3°C23 May 1941	-5.6°C3 May 2006	89 mm28 May 2000	265 mm2000 · driest 14 mm in 1959	112
June	40.0°C22 Jun 1933	3.9°C6 Jun 2003	162 mm26 Jun 1945	279 mm2006 · driest 22 mm in 1954	114
July	41.7°C18 Jul 1942	9.4°C24 Jul 1977	117 mm10 Jul 1956	355 mm1996 · driest 21 mm in 1983	112
August	40.0°C13 Aug 1912	8.3°C30 Aug 1965	150 mm14 Aug 1953	370 mm1981 · driest 31 mm in 1970	110
September	37.2°C1 Sep 1932	3.9°C23 Sep 1918	241 mm30 Sep 2010	443 mm1979 · driest 3 mm in 1926	111
October	35.0°C6 Oct 1954	-4.4°C30 Oct 1965	199 mm9 Oct 2016	249 mm1964 · driest 0 mm in 2000	110
November	32.2°C1 Nov 1989	-8.3°C17 Nov 1933	109 mm22 Nov 2006	255 mm2002 · driest 0 mm in 1931	109
December	27.8°C9 Dec 1978	-19.4°C30 Dec 1917	79 mm4 Dec 1927	242 mm2003 · driest 10 mm in 1965	110

Typical days per month at ELIZABETH CITY, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	<1	0	16	3
February	<1	0	14	3
March	3	<1	8	4
April	11	1	<1	3
May	21	7	<1	3
June	26	16	0	4
July	29	23	0	5
August	28	19	0	5
September	25	9	0	4
October	13	1	0	3
November	2	0	5	3
December	<1	0	13	3

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was May (scoring 83); on 2011–2025 it is October (86). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in ELIZABETH CITY’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%	8.6–15.7°C
February	11%	29%	12%	32%	9.5–16.2°C
March	27%	28%	11%	29%	14.0–20.1°C
April	53%	24%	9%	23%	20.1–24.1°C
May	69%	26%	11%	29%	23.7–28.2°C
June	73%	27%	12%	31%	27.8–32.3°C
July	68%	32%	16%	39%	29.7–33.2°C
August	72%	28%	14%	32%	29.3–32.4°C
September	77%	23%	11%	21%	26.7–29.8°C
October	68%	18%	8%	16%	21.7–25.2°C
November	32%	21%	8%	19%	16.0–20.3°C
December	10%	25%	10%	25%	9.7–16.7°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.

1913Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 90-year average. Warmest: 1949. Coolest: 1920.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4492602
NOAA station: USC00312719 · ELIZABETH CITY
Station distance: 18.7 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 27 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 36.45°, 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 ELIZABETH CITY is what differs

Elizabeth City→Camden→Barco→Beechwood Shores→Belcross→Briarwood→

Or put two places side by side: South Mills vs Elizabeth City

Best time to visitSouth Mills.