Ideal weather days in Charlotte
The best time to visit Charlotte for warm, dry weather is October, with about 29 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Charlotte's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in October.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Charlotte, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too wet96
- Too cold72
- Too hot46
- Too windy9
A day can fail more than one test.
Warm and dry, beach and mild days
With the Warm & dry preset (a high of 18–33 °C, no more than 1 mm of rain, wind under 20 km/h), Charlotte averaged 177 days a year in 2023–2025. Every number here is counted from real measured days in the United States, not from climate averages.
Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in September and October (up to 13 a month, 69 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in October and November (up to 12 a month, 66 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are wet (more than 1 mm of rain): 96 a year, mostly in March to May and July to August. Another 72 are too cold (a high under 18 °C), mostly in December and January. A day can fail more than one test.
Charlotte weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 14 °C 56 °F | 10 | 1 | 12 | 4 of 31 |
| February | 19 °C 66 °F | 8 | 1 | 11 | 13 of 28 |
| March | 23 °C 73 °F | 10 | 1 | 13 | 17 of 31 |
| April | 26 °C 79 °F | 10 | 1 | 9 | 21 of 30 |
| May | 28 °C 82 °F | 11 | 1 | 2 | 20 of 31 |
| June | 32 °C 89 °F | 7 | 0 | 2 | 17 of 30 |
| July | 35 °C 94 °F | 11 | 0 | 2 | 5 of 31 |
| August | 32 °C 90 °F | 14 | 0 | 3 | 10 of 31 |
| September | 29 °C 84 °F | 6 | 2 | 3 | 21 of 30 |
| October | 27 °C 80 °F | 3 | 0 | 14 | 29 of 31 |
| November | 20 °C 68 °F | 8 | 0 | 13 | 17 of 30 |
| December | 15 °C 59 °F | 9 | 1 | 13 | 5 of 31 |
| Year | 105 | 9 | 96 | 177 of 365 |
Typical high is the median daily maximum. A rain day has 1 mm or more; a windy day a mean wind above 20 km/h; a clear day a daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average (9:00–17:00). Days are averaged over 2023–2025 and scaled to the length of each month.
Year by year
- 2023 180 warm, dry days
- 2024 179 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Charlotte for good weather?
The best time to visit Charlotte for warm, dry weather is October, with about 29 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in September and October (up to 13 a month, 69 a year). Counted from measured days at Charlotte Douglas Airport station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Charlotte?
On average 105 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was August (14 rain days), the driest October (3).
How many sunny days does Charlotte get a year?
About 96 days a year had mostly clear skies (daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average, 9:00–17:00), most of them in October (14).
How warm does Charlotte get?
The median daily high ranged from 14 °C (56 °F) in January to 35 °C (94 °F) in July.
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Source: Charlotte Douglas Airport weather station (72314013881), 10 km from the centre of Charlotte, 223 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 89% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.