North Carolina Weather

Right now in North Carolina
78°F
Clear

Observed at Charlotte (the largest city by population in North Carolina, used as a state-wide proxy). For per-city forecasts, see the city grid below.

Climate at a glance

North Carolina is largely one climate zone across 771 cities and towns. Predominantly humid subtropical.

The state spans roughly 2.7° of latitude (33.9° N to 36.5° N), from Bald Head Island in the south to Milton in the north. Charlotte is the largest city by population.

Microseason · September 21–25 · Southeast Subtropical

Thunder quiets the land

Microseason content for North Carolina is drawn from the Southeast Subtropical corpus (100% of the state's cities sit in this region).

Live wind & temperature across North Carolina

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Cities in North Carolina

20 cities with a weather forecast page, largest first

CityJuly normalPopulation
Charlotte80°F1,488,249
Raleigh80°F1,179,118
Winston-Salem79°F443,598
Durham78°F420,564
Greensboro80°F342,060
Fayetteville81°F325,349
Concord80°F299,345
Asheville75°F295,184
Wilmington82°F285,611
Hickory79°F213,375
Gastonia79°F181,152
Cary80°F179,306
High Point79°F175,377
Burlington79°F152,375
Greenville81°F127,632
Winterville81°F10,725
Mount Pleasant80°F2,230
Cypress Landing80°F1,044
Pinnacle76°F540
Bear Grass80°F133

Our dataset lists 771 places in North Carolina; the 20 above have a page. For a smaller town, the nearest city above is the closest match.

The July figure is that city’s 1991–2020 normal mean temperature, rounded to the nearest degree — NOAA NCEI station normals from the nearest station where one covers the city, otherwise modelled normals (EC_Earth3P_HR via Open-Meteo); each city page names which. Populations come from SimpleMaps US Cities (CC BY 4.0). See methodology for data sources and editorial rules. Maintainer: Brian Tighe.