High Point, North Carolina climate: Normal weather by month, frost dates and records

What is the weather like in High Point each month?

July is the warmest month, with normal highs of 89°F; January the coldest, with normal lows of 32°F. The most precipitation falls in August (5.06 in), the least in February (3.17 in).

Each month has its own page with the day-by-day normals, the month's records and its recent years:

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When is the best weather to visit High Point?

Normal highs sit between 65°F and 85°F in April, May, September and October. Of those, October has the fewest days with rain (8).

That is a measurement, not a recommendation: it counts the months whose normal afternoon high sits between 65°F and 85°F, where a light layer is enough by day.

When is the last frost in High Point?

In High Point, the last spring frost (32°F) comes after March 30 in half of years and after April 15 in one year in ten; the first autumn frost comes before November 5 in half of years and before October 21 in one year in ten.

Last spring frost, half of years after

March 301 year in 10 after April 15; 9 in 10 after March 13

First autumn frost, half of years before

November 51 year in 10 before October 21; 9 in 10 before November 21

NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 220 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 244 days.

A hard freeze (28°F) comes after March 18 in half of springs and before November 16 in half of autumns.

The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts High Point in zone 8a across its 6 ZIP code areas (8a in 27265, the largest). By the map's own method, the average of each year's coldest night over 1991-2020, High Point's NOAA station is in zone 7b: the coldest night of a typical year reaches 9°F (28 complete years); the map interpolates between stations and terrain, so the station and the ZIP area can differ by half a zone.

Frost dates for every NOAA station in North Carolina · Frost dates by ZIP code

What hardiness zone is each High Point ZIP code in?

The USDA's 2023 map gives each ZIP code area one zone. High Point's 6 ZIP code areas are all in zone 8a. Each ZIP's frost dates are in the frost tool.

How hot and how cold does it get in High Point?

In a normal year in High Point, 45 days a year reach 90°F (1 of them 100°F or more), 69 nights fall to 32°F or colder and 116 days bring measurable precipitation.

Days at 90°F or more

45a normal year

Days at 100°F or more

1a normal year

Nights at 32°F or colder

69a normal year

Days that stay below freezing

2high of 32°F or less

Days with 0.01 inch of precipitation

116a normal year

Days with 1 inch of snow or more

fewer than 1a normal year

The highest temperature in this station's record (since 1926) is 106°F, on July 20, 1926; the lowest is −7°F, on January 21, 1985.

The wettest calendar year on that record is 2020, with 74.08 in; the snowiest season is 1926–27, with 29.0 inches.

How sunny is High Point?

Over a year 77% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around High Point, 4.4 kWh per square metre a day. June is the sunniest month (81%) and February the cloudiest (72%). Among the 459 U.S. places of 50,000 or more, that ranks tied 243rd (with 32 others) in sunshine.

How much heating and cooling does High Point need?

A normal year in High Point brings 3,120 heating degree days, 42% fewer than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 1,711 cooling degree days, 88% more than the median (908). Five months need 300 or more heating degree days, a monthly mean of about 55°F or colder. For gardens and crops, NOAA counts 4,964 growing degree days a year above 50°F.

Has High Point been warmer than normal lately?

2025 averaged 60.8°F, 0.2°F below the 1991-2020 normal of 61.0°F. 2 of the 5 complete years since 2021 ran warmer than the normal.

Over 64 complete years from 1928 to 2025, the station's annual mean temperature rose at a fitted 1.4°F per century (+0.08°C per decade). A fitted rate summarizes the whole record; single years swing well above and below it.

Which places near High Point share this climate record?

4 places have no NOAA station with 1991-2020 normals of their own, and this station is the nearest full record. A place's own climate can differ from these figures, by several degrees where it sits much higher or lower than the station, nearer the coast, or inside a large city's heat; for the larger places the next nearest records are named with their yearly mean, so the spread around them is visible, and places of 50,000 or more have their own page with NOAA's gridded normals.

• Thomasville, NC27,605 people · 9 mi SW
• Archdale, NC12,147 people · 4 mi S
• Trinity, NC7,190 people · 7 mi S
• Jamestown, NC3,773 people · 3 mi NE

Nearby and next

• High Point in OctoberThis month day by day, its records and recent years
• North Carolina climateThe statewide normals and every place in the state
• Greensboro, NC9 miles from this station, 59.6°F a year
• Randleman, NC14 miles from this station, 58.7°F a year
• Winston-Salem, NC18 miles from this station, 59.5°F a year
• Lexington, NC18 miles from this station, 59.3°F a year
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