Weather in Cary, month by month
- Warmest month
- July, 26.7
- Coldest month
- January, 3.4
- Wettest month
- August, 127 mm
- Year
- 2001-2020
Same data, same method, different place.
Your own numbers, worked out on the page.
Across the 2001-2020 normals, the warmest month in Cary is July at 26.7 degrees and the coldest is January at 3.4, a swing of 23.3 degrees over the year. Those are monthly averages for the model cell the city sits in, not readings from a weather station in it.
Rain is heaviest in August, about 127 mm, and lightest in January at roughly 72 mm. Over a full year the cell above Cary collects around 1,186 mm.
The months whose average sits between 15 and 24 degrees are April, May, September and October. That band is this page's own definition of mild and is stated so you can disagree with it rather than guess at it.
Humidity peaks in December at 81 percent, and the windiest month is February at 0.6 metres per second. Both are monthly means from the same twenty year series as the temperatures.
Rainfall is not spread evenly: 57 per cent of the year total falls in April, May, June, July, August and September.
Every figure here comes from one NASA POWER grid cell, at 35.79, -78.78, covering Cary on the 2001-2020 climatology. One cell, one period and one provider for every month, which is what makes the twelve rows comparable with each other.
The source publishes a monthly mean and, separately, the highest and lowest values it recorded in twenty years. Those extremes are not a typical afternoon or a typical night, so nothing here is quoted as one. This page does not say what the daytime high usually is, because this source cannot say it.
Normals are not a forecast. They describe what twenty years averaged to, and any single year can sit well outside them. They also describe a model grid cell of roughly fifty kilometres rather than a weather station, so a coastal city and the sea beside it share one figure.
Weather in Cary, month by month
| Month | Mean temperature | Rainfall | Humidity |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.4 | 72 mm | 80% |
| February | 5.2 | 74 mm | 79% |
| March | 9.5 | 96 mm | 78% |
| April | 15.2 | 91 mm | 75% |
| May | 20 | 99 mm | 75% |
| June | 24.7 | 118 mm | 72% |
| July | 26.7 | 122 mm | 70% |
| August | 25.8 | 127 mm | 73% |
| September | 22.2 | 119 mm | 75% |
| October | 16 | 87 mm | 77% |
| November | 9.7 | 88 mm | 77% |
| December | 5.7 | 94 mm | 81% |
Questions
What is the warmest month in Cary?
July, on the 2001-2020 monthly averages.
What is the coldest month in Cary?
January, on the same twenty year series.
When does it rain most in Cary?
August carries the highest monthly total in the 2001-2020 normals.
Same data, same method, different place.
Your own numbers, worked out on the page.
Related pages
Sources
- NASA POWER, https://power.larc.nasa.gov/api/temporal/climatology/point (CC BY 4.0; 'There are no restrictions on the use, access, and/or download of data from the NASA POWER Project' (AWS Open Data Registry entry))