Average December Temperatures for North Carolina

Average temperatures for December at 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.

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

North Carolina Mountains

Average December temperatures
High °F	Low °F	Place	High °C	Low °C
51	32	Asheville	10	0
44	26	Banner Elk	7	-4
42	26	Blowing Rock	6	-3
45	25	Boone	7	-4
51	29	Cullowhee	11	-2
42	26	Grandfather Mountain	5	-4
45	27	Highlands	7	-3
52	30	Kerr Scott Reservoir	11	-1
52	30	Morganton	11	-1
51	30	North Wilkesboro	11	-1
52	28	Pisgah Forest	11	-2
50	31	Tapoco	10	0
51	32	Waterville	11	0
52	34	Winston-Salem	11	1

Piedmont

Average daily temperatures in December
High °F	Low °F	Place	High °C	Low °C
54	34	Albemarle	12	1
55	33	Burlington	13	0
53	34	Cary	12	1
54	32	Chapel Hill	12	0
55	35	Charlotte	13	1
56	32	Concord	13	0
52	32	Durham	11	0
56	35	Gastonia	13	1
53	33	Greensboro	11	0
54	29	Henderson	12	-2
52	33	Hickory	11	0
54	34	High Point	12	1
50	28	Mount Airy	10	-3
55	34	Raleigh	Raleigh	1
55	29	Shelby	13	-1

North Carolina Coast

December temperatures: daily averages
High °F	Low °F	Place	High °C	Low °C
57	43	Atlantic Beach	14	6
59	41	Beaufort	15	5
57	36	Belhaven	14	2
59	45	Cape Hatteras	15	7
64	41	Cedar Island	18	5
55	38	Edenton	13	3
56	38	Elizabeth City	14	3
57	34	Fayetteville	14	1
57	37	Goldsboro	14	3
56	35	Greenville	14	2
57	34	Hofmann Forest	14	1
60	36	Jacksonville	15	2
59	38	Kinston	15	3
57	36	Lumberton	14	2
55	40	Manteo	13	5
59	40	Morehead City	15	5
59	37	New Bern	15	3
56	43	Ocracoke	13	6
53	34	Roanoke Rapids	12	1
55	34	Rocky Mount	13	1
63	38	Southport	17	3
60	39	Wilmington	16	4
56	35	Wilson	13	2

Average Temperatures for North Carolina in December

North Carolina Mountains

Piedmont

North Carolina Coast

Reference

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