Average May Temperatures for North Carolina

Average temperatures for May 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 May temperatures
High °F	Low °F	Place	High °C	Low °C
76	54	Asheville	25	12
68	47	Banner Elk	20	9
67	48	Blowing Rock	19	9
69	46	Boone	21	8
77	51	Cullowhee	25	10
62	47	Grandfather Mountain	17	8
69	47	Highlands	21	8
78	54	Kerr Scott Reservoir	26	12
78	54	Morganton	26	12
77	53	North Wilkesboro	25	12
75	50	Pisgah Forest	24	10
77	52	Tapoco	25	11
77	54	Waterville	25	12
78	57	Winston-Salem	26	14

Piedmont

Average daily temperatures in May
High °F	Low °F	Place	High °C	Low °C
79	57	Albemarle	26	14
80	57	Burlington	27	14
78	56	Cary	26	14
79	56	Chapel Hill	26	14
80	58	Charlotte	27	14
81	56	Concord	27	13
77	55	Durham	25	13
81	58	Gastonia	27	15
79	58	Greensboro	26	14
79	53	Henderson	26	12
77	56	Hickory	25	13
80	58	High Point	27	14
76	50	Mount Airy	24	10
80	58	Raleigh	27	14
80	54	Shelby	27	12

North Carolina Coast

May temperatures: daily averages
High °F	Low °F	Place	High °C	Low °C
76	64	Atlantic Beach	25	18
78	63	Beaufort	25	17
79	58	Belhaven	26	14
77	63	Cape Hatteras	25	17
84	62	Cedar Island	29	17
79	59	Edenton	26	15
79	59	Elizabeth City	26	15
81	58	Fayetteville	27	14
82	60	Goldsboro	28	15
81	59	Greenville	27	15
79	55	Hofmann Forest	26	13
81	59	Jacksonville	27	15
82	60	Kinston	28	15
81	59	Lumberton	27	15
75	60	Manteo	24	16
77	62	Morehead City	25	17
80	59	New Bern	27	15
75	63	Ocracoke	24	17
78	57	Roanoke Rapids	25	14
78	57	Rocky Mount	26	14
83	60	Southport	28	16
81	61	Wilmington	27	16
80	58	Wilson	27	15

Average Temperatures for North Carolina in May

North Carolina Mountains

Piedmont

North Carolina Coast

Reference

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