United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Tar Heel.

October leads for comfortable weather in Tar Heel: typically 23.8°C by day, 10.4°C at night, with 91 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortOctober

Typical high23.8°C

Typical low10.4°C

Rain in October91 mm

Comfort

October

October · April · May

81climate match

Beach

June

June · September · July

68climate match

Outdoors

November

November · October · April

77climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 24 against October’s 81 — days reach only 13°C, 11° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to -0.2°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

2413° / -0.2°

Feb

3314.9° / 0.8°

Mar

5119° / 4.5°

Apr

7823.7° / 9.2°

May

7627.4° / 14.3°

Jun

5231.1° / 19.2°

Jul

4032.6° / 21.4°

Aug

4131.5° / 20.5°

Sep

6028.7° / 17.6°

Oct

8123.8° / 10.4°

Nov

5618.6° / 4.8°

Dec

3414.6° / 1.8°

Monthly climate evidence for Tar Heel — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	13°C	-0.2°C	95 mm	7.6	10 h 04	24	Good coverage
February	14.9°C	0.8°C	92 mm	7.2	10 h 53	33	Good coverage
March	19°C	4.5°C	105 mm	7.4	11 h 52	51	Strong coverage
April	23.7°C	9.2°C	88 mm	6.2	13 h 01	78	Good coverage
May	27.4°C	14.3°C	94 mm	7	13 h 58	76	Strong coverage
June	31.1°C	19.2°C	124 mm	7.9	14 h 28	52	Strong coverage
July	32.6°C	21.4°C	143 mm	9.3	14 h 16	40	Strong coverage
August	31.5°C	20.5°C	171 mm	9.5	13 h 27	41	Strong coverage
September	28.7°C	17.6°C	147 mm	7.1	12 h 21	60	Good coverage
October	23.8°C	10.4°C	91 mm	5	11 h 15	81	Good coverage
November	18.6°C	4.8°C	79 mm	5.2	10 h 18	56	Good coverage
December	14.6°C	1.8°C	84 mm	7.8	9 h 50	34	Good coverage

What has changed

Tar Heel runs -0.1°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

-0.6

Feb

-0.6

Mar

-1.2

Apr

-0.7

May

+0.1

Jun

+1.6

Jul

+1.4

Aug

+0.5

Sep

—

Oct

+0.1

Nov

-2.2

Dec

+0.6

October daytime highs, 2011–2024. Last recorded: 25.7°C.

Records at ELIZABETHTOWN, 1946–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	27.2°C29 Jan 1970	-19.4°C21 Jan 1985	84 mm25 Jan 1999	194 mm1999 · driest 0 mm in 2004	65
February	29.4°C28 Feb 1962	-13.3°C3 Feb 1996	83 mm19 Feb 2021	234 mm2016 · driest 2 mm in 2018	62
March	32.8°C12 Mar 2026	-10.6°C3 Mar 1980	100 mm9 Mar 1998	257 mm1983 · driest 19 mm in 1967	65
April	34.4°C28 Apr 1981	-4.4°C9 Apr 2007	81 mm1 Apr 1973	171 mm1973 · driest 0 mm in 2026	59
May	35.6°C18 May 1995	0.0°C2 May 1963	94 mm26 May 1969	195 mm1974 · driest 11 mm in 1987	64
June	38.3°C30 Jun 2012	6.7°C2 Jun 1966	105 mm8 Jun 1983	314 mm2013 · driest 11 mm in 1990	64
July	39.4°C1 Jul 2012	11.7°C9 Jul 1984	149 mm3 Jul 2003	343 mm1959 · driest 16 mm in 1994	64
August	40.6°C11 Aug 2007	10.0°C30 Aug 1965	121 mm20 Aug 1981	375 mm1992 · driest 32 mm in 1979	64
September	37.2°C7 Sep 1983	5.0°C30 Sep 1970	193 mm6 Sep 1996	328 mm2016 · driest 0 mm in 2025	62
October	35.0°C4 Oct 1986	-6.1°C27 Oct 1962	169 mm17 Oct 1999	284 mm2015 · driest 0 mm in 2024	64
November	31.7°C2 Nov 1974	-8.9°C25 Nov 1970	108 mm2 Nov 1969	249 mm2006 · driest 1 mm in 1990	62
December	27.8°C8 Dec 1998	-19.4°C25 Dec 1989	60 mm19 Dec 1959	159 mm1973 · driest 4 mm in 1988	61

Typical days per month at ELIZABETHTOWN, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	<1	0	13	3
February	1	0	11	3
March	4	<1	6	3
April	12	2	<1	3
May	20	8	0	3
June	23	17	0	3
July	25	23	0	4
August	24	18	0	4
September	21	11	0	3
October	11	2	<1	2
November	3	0	5	3
December	<1	0	10	3

How often, not how much — every day in ELIZABETHTOWN’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	12%	25%	10%	26%	10.1–15.8°C
February	18%	26%	11%	27%	12.1–18.0°C
March	40%	25%	10%	26%	16.9–22.1°C
April	66%	21%	9%	20%	21.8–26.5°C
May	72%	24%	10%	24%	26.0–29.1°C
June	72%	27%	12%	31%	28.7–32.4°C
July	67%	33%	16%	44%	30.6–34.2°C
August	69%	30%	15%	33%	29.8–33.2°C
September	77%	23%	11%	22%	27.3–30.5°C
October	69%	16%	7%	12%	21.9–25.7°C
November	42%	17%	7%	13%	16.7–21.3°C
December	17%	23%	9%	22%	12.2–17.6°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.

1958Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 41-year average. Warmest: 1975. Coolest: 1988.2015

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4494479
NOAA station: USC00312732 · ELIZABETHTOWN
Station distance: 20.2 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 20 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 34.73°, 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 ELIZABETHTOWN is what differs

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