Black Mtn, NC Climate: Temperature by Month
Explore NOAA NCEI's 1991–2020 climate normals → and a clearly labeled PlainClimate comfort calculation
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Black Mtn's primary NOAA station, BLACK MTN 2 W.
The climate verdict for Black Mtn
Black Mtn, North Carolina has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 55°F. July is the warmest month at 73°F and January the coldest at 37°F.
- 55°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 187 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Black Mtn: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00310843 · Black Mtn, NC 55°F mean
TEMP-MILD · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-UNK · SWING-MID · COMF-UNK · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-PART
- TEMP-MILD 55°F
- RANK-UPPER #4,254
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Gatlinburg
- PRCP-UNK Rain n/a
- SWING-MID 36°F
- COMF-UNK Comfort n/a
- LOAD-HEAT 4,266 HDD
- STN-1 USC00310843
- BOOK-PART 4/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Gatlinburg, TN ( -0.1 °F mean)
Instrument codes from this station's NOAA 1991–2020 normals, mean temperature, corpus warmth rank, photo-finish peer station, precipitation band, seasonal swing, comfort composite, degree-day load, and field book, not a livability rating.
Mean-temperature neighbourhood
Nationwide NOAA normal poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every NC station list.
- Hot Hayesville, NC 56°F
- Black Mtn (this station) 55°F
- Cold Cherokee, NC 55°F
- Near Gatlinburg, TN 55°F
- Near Brevard, NC 55°F
Climate Living Index · Black Mtn
Black Mtn: 64/100 · grade C
Black Mtn publishes 3 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 3 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Black Mtn, not an official NOAA rating. Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 111 calendar days | 70/100 · B |
| Annual temperature balance | 55.4°F · 12.1° from 67.5°F | 61/100 · C |
| Frost-free season | 187 days/year | 55/100 · C |
Black Mtn · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method .
National standing · heating-led station
Where Black Mtn sits across the climate record
Available NOAA 1991–2020 fields for Black Mtn are ranked only against stations that publish the same field, missing metrics stay blank rather than estimated.
- Annual temperature
- 62nd percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 81%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Black Mtn is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 49°F (9°C) | 26°F (-3°C) | 37°F (3°C) | N/A | 22.3 | 0.0 |
| February | 52°F (11°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 40°F (4°C) | N/A | 19.9 | 0.0 |
| March | 59°F (15°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 46°F (8°C) | N/A | 14.8 | 0.0 |
| April | 68°F (20°C) | 42°F (5°C) | 55°F (13°C) | N/A | 4.2 | 0.0 |
| May | 75°F (24°C) | 51°F (10°C) | 63°F (17°C) | N/A | 0.4 | 0.1 |
| June | 81°F (27°C) | 58°F (15°C) | 70°F (21°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 1.2 |
| July | 84°F (29°C) | 62°F (17°C) | 73°F (23°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 1.9 |
| August | 83°F (28°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 72°F (22°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 2.6 |
| September | 78°F (25°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 66°F (19°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 0.5 |
| October | 69°F (20°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 56°F (14°C) | N/A | 4.4 | 0.0 |
| November | 59°F (15°C) | 33°F (1°C) | 46°F (8°C) | N/A | 14.9 | 0.0 |
| December | 51°F (11°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 40°F (4°C) | N/A | 21.7 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 84°F around July 7, short of 90°F on every date, while 111 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 26°F near January 22.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into March 7, then returns to freezing around November 18, covering 111 dates in all.
Derived from the normal daily minimum. This is a different measure from the 50%-probability frost dates shown elsewhere on this page, which come from NOAA’s frost product.
The widest day
November 7 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 27°F between the normal high and the normal low.
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Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Black Mtn.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
October 23
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
April 19
50% probability date
Growing Season
187 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
4,266
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
783
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside NC closest to Black Mtn on two NOAA annual-normal axes (mean temperature and annual precipitation). Chip rows use distinct link sets.
Closest by average temperature
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual mean temperature (55°F here).
- Appleton City, MO 55°F · 0.0°F off
- Danville, KY 55°F · 0.0°F off
- Elkton, OR 55°F · 0.0°F off
- Erwin, TN 55°F · 0.0°F off
Data-derived climate profile
How Black Mtn's climate pattern fits together
heating led · mid swing
Black Mtn's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 4,266 annual heating degree days against 783 for cooling. Its 35.7°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Black Mtn's frost-free season lasts about 187 days, a middle-length window whose endpoints matter more than the annual average. It describes freeze probability, not year-specific planting conditions.
July and January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Black Mtn's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 35.7°F. The annual average is 55°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
A moisture-range label is withheld because Black Mtn's annual precipitation total is unavailable. Monthly source values remain visible where NOAA provides them, and no annual amount is reconstructed from incomplete data.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Black Mtn's primary station, so the winter figures are a thirty-year average and not a floor: a single hard season can run well below them. Treat each band as a descriptive range for Black Mtn, not an official NOAA class or a year-ahead forecast.
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Data Sources
Data source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals v1.0.1 (1991-2020). All figures on this page are from Black Mtn's primary station: BLACK MTN 2 W (USC00310843). For informational purposes only.
Place identity: U.S. Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer places. The conservative exact name-and-state crosswalk finds no Census place match, so PlainClimate treats this as a station-mapped location and does not claim it is a municipality. No exact Gazetteer row for Black Mtn; facility counts that depend on place identity are therefore an upper bound, not a municipal census.
On this page every temperature, precipitation, and derived score for Black Mtn comes from its primary NOAA station record. No figure on this page is typed in by an editor - each value is rendered from NOAA 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 1991–2020 normals.