United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Catawba.

October leads for comfortable weather in Catawba: typically 23.5°C by day, 10.9°C at night, with 75 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortOctober

Typical high23.5°C

Typical low10.9°C

Rain in October75 mm

Comfort

October

October · April · May

83climate match

Beach

September

September · August · June

78climate match

Outdoors

October

October · November · March

78climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 22 against October’s 83 — days reach only 12°C, 12° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to 0.7°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

2212° / 0.7°

Feb

3514.4° / 2°

Mar

5218.8° / 5.7°

Apr

7923.9° / 10.3°

May

7827.4° / 15.2°

Jun

5531° / 19.6°

Jul

4832.7° / 21.5°

Aug

5231.8° / 20.8°

Sep

7128.7° / 17.5°

Oct

8323.5° / 10.9°

Nov

5317.7° / 5.2°

Dec

3013.2° / 2.1°

Monthly climate evidence for Catawba — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	12°C	0.7°C	90 mm	8.3	10 h 03	22	Strong coverage
February	14.4°C	2°C	79 mm	7.6	10 h 52	35	Strong coverage
March	18.8°C	5.7°C	97 mm	8.5	11 h 52	52	Strong coverage
April	23.9°C	10.3°C	95 mm	7.5	13 h 01	79	Strong coverage
May	27.4°C	15.2°C	84 mm	7.1	13 h 58	78	Strong coverage
June	31°C	19.6°C	99 mm	7.9	14 h 29	55	Strong coverage
July	32.7°C	21.5°C	86 mm	7.8	14 h 17	48	Strong coverage
August	31.8°C	20.8°C	94 mm	7.2	13 h 28	52	Strong coverage
September	28.7°C	17.5°C	84 mm	5.4	12 h 21	71	Strong coverage
October	23.5°C	10.9°C	75 mm	5.7	11 h 15	83	Strong coverage
November	17.7°C	5.2°C	79 mm	5.9	10 h 17	53	Strong coverage
December	13.2°C	2.1°C	85 mm	7.5	9 h 50	30	Strong coverage

What has changed

Catawba runs +1.1°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

+1.5

Feb

+2.3

Mar

+1.1

Apr

+1.0

May

+0.4

Jun

+0.9

Jul

+1.0

Aug

+0.4

Sep

+1.2

Oct

+1.3

Nov

+0.1

Dec

+1.8

October daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 22.7°C.

Records at WINTHROP UNIV, 1899–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	26.7°C28 Jan 1944	-20.0°C21 Jan 1985	87 mm6 Jan 1962	288 mm1936 · driest 8 mm in 2026	127
February	28.3°C27 Feb 1996	-15.0°C1 Feb 1936	87 mm6 Feb 2020	249 mm1939 · driest 0 mm in 1927	127
March	32.2°C24 Mar 1929	-15.6°C3 Mar 1980	98 mm24 Mar 1979	260 mm1980 · driest 0 mm in 2014	127
April	35.6°C24 Apr 1925	-6.7°C2 Apr 1919	84 mm28 Apr 2023	238 mm1936 · driest 0 mm in 1927	127
May	37.8°C23 May 1941	1.1°C9 May 1989	158 mm1 May 2016	332 mm1901 · driest 0 mm in 1941	127
June	40.6°C24 Jun 1914	4.4°C11 Jun 1913	102 mm16 Jun 1979	265 mm1995 · driest 12 mm in 1993	127
July	42.2°C12 Jul 1930	10.0°C2 Jul 1943	130 mm9 Jul 1959	466 mm1959 · driest 11 mm in 1993	126
August	41.1°C20 Aug 1925	9.4°C26 Aug 1942	152 mm23 Aug 1967	351 mm1970 · driest 13 mm in 1997	125
September	41.1°C7 Sep 1925	2.8°C30 Sep 1967	149 mm27 Sep 2024	340 mm1924 · driest 0 mm in 1961	124
October	36.7°C3 Oct 2019	-3.9°C30 Oct 1952	141 mm10 Oct 1934	299 mm1990 · driest 0 mm in 2000	126
November	30.0°C2 Nov 1950	-11.1°C26 Nov 1950	79 mm28 Nov 1948	288 mm1948 · driest 7 mm in 1910	126
December	27.2°C20 Dec 1931	-16.7°C13 Dec 1962	116 mm4 Dec 1931	282 mm1931 · driest 0 mm in 1899	127

Typical days per month at WINTHROP UNIV, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	<1	0	15	3	<1
February	<1	0	11	3	<1
March	5	<1	6	3	<1
April	13	2	<1	3	0
May	24	9	0	3	0
June	28	21	0	3	0
July	30	27	0	3	0
August	29	24	0	3	0
September	25	13	0	2	0
October	12	1	<1	2	0
November	2	0	6	3	0
December	<1	0	12	3	<1

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was April (scoring 81); on 2011–2025 it is October (88). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in WINTHROP UNIV’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	8%	26%	11%	27%	8.9–14.9°C
February	13%	27%	12%	30%	10.5–16.9°C
March	33%	26%	12%	27%	15.3–21.2°C
April	63%	23%	10%	23%	21.4–25.1°C
May	75%	24%	10%	26%	25.6–29.6°C
June	74%	26%	11%	28%	28.9–33.2°C
July	72%	29%	13%	32%	30.6–34.2°C
August	76%	24%	11%	24%	29.7–33.1°C
September	81%	18%	9%	16%	26.7–31.0°C
October	69%	16%	8%	14%	21.1–25.3°C
November	32%	19%	9%	16%	15.4–19.8°C
December	8%	24%	11%	25%	9.7–15.3°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.

1900Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 122-year average. Warmest: 1998. Coolest: 1917.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4573805
NOAA station: USC00389350 · WINTHROP UNIV
Station distance: 14.9 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 29 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 34.85°, 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 WINTHROP UNIV is what differs

Rock Hill→Lancaster→Lesslie→Springdale→Lancaster Mill→Irwin→

Or put two places side by side: Catawba vs Rock Hill

Best time to visitCatawba.

October

September

October

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Catawba runs +1.1°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Catawba.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Catawba runs +1.1°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.