Average Temperatures in North Carolina

Average annual temperatures for cities, communities and other locations around North Carolina are listed below in degrees Fahrenheit and Celsius.

You can jump to a separate table for each region of the state: North Carolina Mountains in the west, Piedmont in the center, and North Carolina Coast to the east.

Place name links take you to more detailed temperature information for that location.

The tables give the normals for maximum and minimum yearly temperatures based on weather data collected from 1991 to 2020 by the US National Centers for Environmental Information.

North Carolina Mountains

Average annual temperatures
High °F	Low °F	Place	High °C	Low °C
68	47	Asheville	20	8
60	40	Banner Elk	16	5
59	41	Blowing Rock	15	5
61	39	Boone	16	4
69	44	Cullowhee	20	7
55	40	Grandfather Mountain	13	4
61	41	Highlands	16	5
70	46	Kerr Scott Reservoir	21	8
70	46	Morganton	21	8
69	46	North Wilkesboro	20	8
68	43	Pisgah Forest	20	6
68	45	Tapoco	20	7
69	47	Waterville	20	8
69	50	Winston-Salem	21	10

Piedmont

Average temperatures for the year
High °F	Low °F	Place	High °C	Low °C
71	50	Albemarle	22	10
72	49	Burlington	22	10
70	49	Cary	21	10
71	49	Chapel Hill	22	9
72	51	Charlotte	22	10
73	48	Concord	23	9
69	48	Durham	20	9
73	51	Gastonia	23	10
70	49	Greensboro	21	10
71	45	Henderson	22	7
69	49	Hickory	21	9
72	50	High Point	22	10
68	43	Mount Airy	20	6
72	51	Raleigh	22	10
72	46	Shelby	22	8

North Carolina Coast

Average yearly temperatures
High °F	Low °F	Place	High °C	Low °C
71	58	Atlantic Beach	21	14
72	56	Beaufort	22	13
72	51	Belhaven	22	11
72	58	Cape Hatteras	22	14
77	56	Cedar Island	25	13
71	53	Edenton	22	12
72	53	Elizabeth City	22	12
73	51	Fayetteville	23	10
74	53	Goldsboro	23	12
73	52	Greenville	23	11
72	49	Hofmann Forest	22	9
74	51	Jacksonville	23	11
74	53	Kinston	24	12
74	52	Lumberton	23	11
69	55	Manteo	20	13
71	55	Morehead City	22	13
73	52	New Bern	23	11
69	57	Ocracoke	21	14
70	49	Roanoke Rapids	21	10
71	49	Rocky Mount	21	10
77	54	Southport	25	12
74	54	Wilmington	24	12
72	51	Wilson	22	11

Average Annual Temperatures in North Carolina

North Carolina Mountains

Piedmont

North Carolina Coast

Reference

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