United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Pawleys Island.

April leads for comfortable weather in Pawleys Island: typically 23.7°C by day, 12°C at night, with 93 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortApril

Typical high23.7°C

Typical low12°C

Rain in April93 mm

Comfort

April

April · October · May

83climate match

Beach

June

June · May · September

71climate match

Outdoors

November

November · March · April

85climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 35 against April’s 83 — days reach only 14.3°C, 10° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to 3.3°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

3514.3° / 3.3°

Feb

4315.8° / 4.4°

Mar

5919.4° / 7.6°

Apr

8323.7° / 12°

May

7427.4° / 16.7°

Jun

4830.5° / 20.9°

Jul

3632° / 22.8°

Aug

3931.2° / 22.3°

Sep

5228.7° / 19.3°

Oct

8124.8° / 13.9°

Nov

6419.6° / 7.9°

Dec

3915.6° / 4.4°

Monthly climate evidence for Pawleys Island — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 7 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	14.3°C	3.3°C	93 mm	7.3	16.2°C	10 h 10	35	Strong coverage
February	15.8°C	4.4°C	87 mm	7.1	15.2°C	10 h 56	43	Strong coverage
March	19.4°C	7.6°C	102 mm	6.7	16.4°C	11 h 53	59	Strong coverage
April	23.7°C	12°C	93 mm	5.9	18.6°C	12 h 58	83	Strong coverage
May	27.4°C	16.7°C	96 mm	6.5	22.5°C	13 h 52	74	Strong coverage
June	30.5°C	20.9°C	137 mm	8.9	26.0°C	14 h 21	48	Strong coverage
July	32°C	22.8°C	158 mm	10	27.6°C	14 h 10	36	Strong coverage
August	31.2°C	22.3°C	164 mm	9.6	27.8°C	13 h 23	39	Strong coverage
September	28.7°C	19.3°C	180 mm	7.6	26.9°C	12 h 20	52	Strong coverage
October	24.8°C	13.9°C	122 mm	6	23.7°C	11 h 17	81	Strong coverage
November	19.6°C	7.9°C	76 mm	5.8	20.0°C	10 h 23	64	Strong coverage
December	15.6°C	4.4°C	110 mm	6.9	17.9°C	9 h 57	39	Strong coverage

What has changed

Pawleys Island runs -0.4°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

+0.4

Feb

+0.7

Mar

-0.3

Apr

-0.7

May

-0.9

Jun

-0.5

Jul

-0.8

Aug

-0.9

Sep

-0.8

Oct

-0.3

Nov

-1.1

Dec

+0.6

April daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 24.6°C.

Records at BROOKGREEN GARDENS, 1957–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	28.9°C31 Jan 1975	-15.6°C21 Jan 1985	102 mm24 Jan 1999	272 mm1998 · driest 13 mm in 2012	69
February	31.1°C28 Feb 1962	-11.7°C12 Feb 1968	95 mm7 Feb 1965	308 mm1998 · driest 21 mm in 2000	69
March	32.2°C29 Mar 1985	-10.0°C3 Mar 1980	118 mm17 Mar 1983	275 mm1983 · driest 15 mm in 2026	68
April	34.4°C28 Apr 1981	-2.8°C20 Apr 1983	140 mm7 Apr 2016	220 mm1958 · driest 1 mm in 1976	69
May	36.7°C25 May 2000	-1.1°C8 May 1989	130 mm10 May 1979	283 mm1976 · driest 20 mm in 1993	69
June	38.9°C21 Jun 1990	7.8°C2 Jun 1966	164 mm7 Jun 1964	369 mm1995 · driest 20 mm in 1990	68
July	39.4°C21 Jul 1977	12.8°C2 Jul 1988	147 mm21 Jul 2018	341 mm1960 · driest 38 mm in 2011	68
August	38.3°C1 Aug 1980	12.8°C18 Aug 1979	172 mm30 Aug 1971	526 mm1971 · driest 13 mm in 1980	68
September	36.7°C15 Sep 1980	5.0°C24 Sep 1967	374 mm16 Sep 1999	502 mm1999 · driest 11 mm in 2012	68
October	35.6°C5 Oct 1986	-3.3°C29 Oct 1976	250 mm5 Oct 2015	427 mm2015 · driest 0 mm in 2000	67
November	30.0°C9 Nov 1986	-8.3°C25 Nov 1970	198 mm2 Nov 1969	261 mm1985 · driest 0 mm in 2007	68
December	28.3°C16 Dec 1971	-15.6°C25 Dec 1989	175 mm18 Dec 2023	356 mm1994 · driest 9 mm in 2011	69

Typical days per month at BROOKGREEN GARDENS, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	<1	0	10	3
February	1	0	7	3
March	4	<1	3	3
April	11	1	<1	3
May	23	6	0	3
June	28	18	0	5
July	30	25	0	5
August	29	22	0	5
September	26	10	0	4
October	16	1	0	3
November	3	0	3	2
December	1	0	8	3

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was April (scoring 86); on 2011–2025 it is October (85). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in BROOKGREEN GARDENS’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%	27%	11%	27%	11.5–17.3°C
February	20%	28%	11%	31%	13.3–18.3°C
March	40%	25%	11%	25%	17.0–21.7°C
April	68%	20%	8%	19%	22.3–25.6°C
May	75%	24%	10%	28%	26.3–29.0°C
June	70%	30%	13%	37%	28.6–31.9°C
July	65%	35%	16%	49%	30.5–33.4°C
August	66%	33%	15%	40%	30.0–32.5°C
September	74%	26%	12%	28%	27.8–30.0°C
October	73%	19%	9%	18%	22.9–26.1°C
November	43%	21%	7%	20%	18.1–21.9°C
December	18%	24%	11%	24%	13.3–18.4°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.

1958Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 64-year average. Warmest: 2007. Coolest: 1958.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4590632
NOAA station: USC00381093 · BROOKGREEN GARDENS
Station distance: 10.1 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 28 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 33.43°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 7 km from the place centre. A sheltered bay can run warmer than the open sea it is measured from.
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 BROOKGREEN GARDENS is what differs

Garden City→Murrells Inlet→Surfside Beach→Bucksport→Annieville→Belin→

Or put two places side by side: Pawleys Island vs Garden City

Best time to visitPawleys Island.