August
August · June · July
77climate match
United States · 1991–2020
Best time to visit
Sugar Mountain.
August leads for comfortable weather in Sugar Mountain: typically 24.7°C by day, 13.7°C at night, with 114 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.
Best comfortAugust
Typical high24.7°C
Typical low13.7°C
Rain in August114 mm
August
August · July · June
44climate match
May
May · September · October
71climate match
The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against August’s 77 — days reach only 5°C, 19° 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
55° / -5.7°
Feb
56.7° / -4.7°
Mar
910.8° / -1.3°
Apr
3416.3° / 3.1°
May
5620.4° / 8.3°
Jun
7223.7° / 12.5°
Jul
7025.5° / 14.5°
Aug
7724.7° / 13.7°
Sep
6722.2° / 10.5°
Oct
4617.1° / 4.4°
Nov
1911.6° / -0.8°
Dec
57.2° / -3.5°
| Month | Day | Night | Rain | Wet days | Daylight | Comfort | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5°C | -5.7°C | 113 mm | 11.5 | 9 h 57 | 5 | Strong coverage |
| February | 6.7°C | -4.7°C | 84 mm | 9.4 | 10 h 49 | 5 | Strong coverage |
| March | 10.8°C | -1.3°C | 111 mm | 10.8 | 11 h 51 | 9 | Strong coverage |
| April | 16.3°C | 3.1°C | 122 mm | 10.4 | 13 h 03 | 34 | Strong coverage |
| May | 20.4°C | 8.3°C | 123 mm | 11.6 | 14 h 04 | 56 | Strong coverage |
| June | 23.7°C | 12.5°C | 135 mm | 12 | 14 h 36 | 72 | Strong coverage |
| July | 25.5°C | 14.5°C | 144 mm | 12.8 | 14 h 23 | 70 | Strong coverage |
| August | 24.7°C | 13.7°C | 114 mm | 11.4 | 13 h 32 | 77 | Strong coverage |
| September | 22.2°C | 10.5°C | 124 mm | 9.5 | 12 h 22 | 67 | Strong coverage |
| October | 17.1°C | 4.4°C | 87 mm | 7.7 | 11 h 12 | 46 | Strong coverage |
| November | 11.6°C | -0.8°C | 86 mm | 7.9 | 10 h 12 | 19 | Good coverage |
| December | 7.2°C | -3.5°C | 107 mm | 11 | 9 h 43 | 5 | Strong coverage |
What has changed
Sugar Mountain runs -0.0°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
-1.2
Feb
+1.1
Mar
-0.3
Apr
+0.1
May
-0.1
Jun
+0.1
Jul
+0.4
Aug
-0.5
Sep
+0.1
Oct
-0.1
Nov
-0.8
Dec
+0.6
| Month | Record high | Record low | Wettest day | Wettest / driest month | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 23.3°C9 Jan 1930 | -35.0°C21 Jan 1985 | 160 mm15 Jan 1995 | 322 mm1995 · driest 10 mm in 2001 | 118 |
| February | 23.9°C10 Feb 1932 | -25.0°C12 Feb 1981 | 97 mm14 Feb 1984 | 197 mm1957 · driest 8 mm in 1968 | 117 |
| March | 27.8°C25 Mar 1929 | -22.8°C14 Mar 1993 | 116 mm24 Mar 1979 | 249 mm1913 · driest 16 mm in 1910 | 118 |
| April | 30.0°C27 Apr 1986 | -13.9°C1 Apr 1923 | 103 mm5 Apr 1957 | 227 mm1987 · driest 4 mm in 1976 | 117 |
| May | 31.7°C6 May 1932 | -7.2°C1 May 1935 | 168 mm6 May 2013 | 309 mm2013 · driest 13 mm in 2005 | 118 |
| June | 36.7°C26 Jun 1948 | -2.8°C1 Jun 1930 | 108 mm21 Jun 1972 | 258 mm1974 · driest 23 mm in 1954 | 117 |
| July | 35.0°C22 Jul 1926 | 1.7°C16 Jul 1926 | 220 mm16 Jul 1916 | 713 mm1916 · driest 36 mm in 1978 | 118 |
| August | 36.1°C12 Aug 1925 | -0.6°C23 Aug 1930 | 216 mm13 Aug 1940 | 561 mm1940 · driest 8 mm in 1925 | 117 |
| September | 33.9°C4 Sep 1925 | -4.4°C27 Sep 1940 | 204 mm8 Sep 2004 | 599 mm2024 · driest 11 mm in 1984 | 116 |
| October | 30.0°C6 Oct 1941 | -13.3°C21 Oct 1952 | 188 mm5 Oct 1995 | 319 mm1908 · driest 1 mm in 2000 | 119 |
| November | 24.4°C4 Nov 1994 | -21.7°C30 Nov 1929 | 129 mm5 Nov 1938 | 261 mm1985 · driest 8 mm in 1917 | 112 |
| December | 23.9°C18 Dec 1924 | -29.4°C30 Dec 1917 | 66 mm26 Dec 2023 | 219 mm2015 · driest 13 mm in 2003 | 115 |
| Month | Days 25°C+ | Days 30°C+ | Frost nights | Heavy rain (10 mm+) | Snow days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 0 | 0 | 23 | 3 | 5 |
| February | 0 | 0 | 20 | 3 | 5 |
| March | 0 | 0 | 17 | 3 | 3 |
| April | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | <1 |
| May | 4 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| June | 12 | <1 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| July | 19 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| August | 15 | <1 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| September | 7 | 0 | <1 | 3 | 0 |
| October | <1 | 0 | 7 | 3 | <1 |
| November | 0 | 0 | 18 | 3 | 1 |
| December | 0 | 0 | 21 | 3 | 4 |
The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was July (scoring 83); on 2011–2025 it is August (88). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.
| Month | Warm & dry days | Wet days | Washouts | Week with 3+ wet days | Daytime mean has ranged |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | <1% | 35% | 11% | 46% | 1.9–9.8°C |
| February | <1% | 35% | 12% | 47% | 3.4–10.1°C |
| March | 6% | 35% | 13% | 46% | 7.5–14.3°C |
| April | 23% | 32% | 12% | 40% | 13.6–18.5°C |
| May | 40% | 38% | 14% | 50% | 18.1–22.4°C |
| June | 59% | 36% | 14% | 46% | 22.0–25.6°C |
| July | 59% | 39% | 15% | 53% | 23.6–26.9°C |
| August | 62% | 35% | 14% | 41% | 23.3–26.7°C |
| September | 58% | 27% | 11% | 29% | 20.4–24.5°C |
| October | 29% | 24% | 9% | 26% | 15.3–19.7°C |
| November | 5% | 26% | 10% | 28% | 8.9–14.2°C |
| December | <1% | 31% | 10% | 39% | 4.0–10.2°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 4493912
- NOAA station
- USC00310506 · BANNER ELK
- Station distance
- 4 km from the place centre
- Climate period
- 1991–2020
- Minimum month coverage
- 23 usable years
- Daylight
- Calculated from latitude 36.13°, 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.