Roanoke Rapids, NC Climate: Temperature by Month
Pulled from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →: climate measurements used in PlainClimate's documented score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Roanoke Rapids's primary NOAA station, ROANOKE RAPIDS AP - 2 stations mapped to the area.
The climate verdict for Roanoke Rapids
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 61°F. July is the warmest month at 80°F and January the coldest at 41°F.
- 61°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 230 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Roanoke Rapids: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USW00093781 · Roanoke Rapids, NC 61°F mean
TEMP-MILD · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-UNK · SWING-MID · COMF-UNK · LOAD-MIX · STN-MULTI · BOOK-PART
- TEMP-MILD 61°F
- RANK-UPPER #5,214
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Apache
- PRCP-UNK Rain n/a
- SWING-MID 38°F
- COMF-UNK Comfort n/a
- LOAD-MIX H/C balanced
- STN-MULTI USW00093781
- BOOK-PART 4/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Apache, OK (+ 0 °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.
- Roanoke Rapids (this station) 61°F
- Hot Bessie, OK 61°F
- Near Apache, OK 61°F
- Near Artesia, NM 61°F
- Near Beedeville, AR 61°F
Climate Living Index · Roanoke Rapids
Roanoke Rapids: 86/100 · grade A
Roanoke Rapids publishes 3 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 3 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Roanoke Rapids, not an official NOAA rating. Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 34 calendar days | 95/100 · A |
| Frost-free season | 230 days/year | 81/100 · B |
| Annual temperature balance | 60.6°F · 6.9° from 67.5°F | 78/100 · B |
Roanoke Rapids · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method .
National standing · balanced station
Where Roanoke Rapids sits across the climate record
Available NOAA 1991–2020 fields for Roanoke Rapids are ranked only against stations that publish the same field, missing metrics stay blank rather than estimated.
- Annual temperature
- Top 24% warmest
- Among 6,861 stations, Roanoke Rapids sits in the warmer third of annual means.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 71%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Roanoke Rapids 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 | 51°F (11°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 41°F (5°C) | N/A | 16.7 | 0.0 |
| February | 54°F (12°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 44°F (7°C) | N/A | 14.7 | 0.0 |
| March | 62°F (17°C) | 40°F (4°C) | 51°F (10°C) | N/A | 7.1 | 0.0 |
| April | 71°F (22°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 60°F (15°C) | N/A | 0.5 | 0.6 |
| May | 78°F (26°C) | 58°F (14°C) | 68°F (20°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 1.6 |
| June | 86°F (30°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 76°F (25°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 7.6 |
| July | 90°F (32°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 80°F (27°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 15.2 |
| August | 87°F (31°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 78°F (25°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 12.5 |
| September | 82°F (28°C) | 62°F (17°C) | 72°F (22°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 3.0 |
| October | 72°F (22°C) | 51°F (11°C) | 62°F (16°C) | N/A | 0.2 | 0.4 |
| November | 62°F (17°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 51°F (11°C) | N/A | 4.8 | 0.0 |
| December | 54°F (12°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 44°F (7°C) | N/A | 15.2 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Roanoke Rapids works both ends of the calendar. Normal highs climb to 90°F by July 8 and hold at or above 90°F on 9 dates, then normal lows drop to freezing or below on 25 dates, bottoming at 32°F around January 17.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from July 6 through July 14, covering 9 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs April 10 to October 21.
This counts calendar dates whose 1991–2020 normal high reaches 90°F. It is a smaller number than the 90°F+ day counts in the monthly table above, which measure how often the threshold was actually crossed in a typical year. A date can average 88°F and still exceed 90°F in half of all years.
The freezing stretch
Freezing normal lows persist into February 2, covering 25 dates.
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
April 11 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 24°F between the normal high and the normal low.
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Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Roanoke Rapids.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
November 12
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
March 27
50% probability date
Growing Season
230 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
3,256
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
1,669
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside NC closest to Roanoke Rapids 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 (61°F here).
- Apache, OK 61°F · 0.0°F off
- Artesia, NM 61°F · 0.0°F off
- Beedeville, AR 61°F · 0.0°F off
- Bessie, OK 61°F · 0.0°F off
Data-derived climate profile
How Roanoke Rapids's climate pattern fits together
mixed demand · mid swing
July and January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Roanoke Rapids's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 38.4°F. The annual average is 61°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Heating and cooling both register in Roanoke Rapids's normal, at 3,256 and 1,669 degree days respectively. Neither total exceeds the other by more than two to one, so the record is better read as a mixed-demand calendar than as heating-led or cooling-led.
A roughly 230-day frost-free season sits inside this mixed heating-and-cooling profile. Start and end dates matter because both sides of the thermostat register during a normal year.
A moisture-range label is withheld because Roanoke Rapids'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 Roanoke Rapids's primary station, where heating and cooling demand are close enough that neither season sets the character on its own. On a balanced station like Roanoke Rapids, the bands are descriptive ranges rather than an official NOAA classification or a forecast.
Questions about Roanoke Rapids's climate
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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 Roanoke Rapids's primary station: ROANOKE RAPIDS AP (USW00093781). 2 NOAA stations are mapped to the Roanoke Rapids area; the primary station's record is used for consistency. For informational purposes only.
Place identity: U.S. Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer places. The 2024 Census Gazetteer identifies the exact name-and-state match as an incorporated place (GEOID 3756900). Match rule for Roanoke Rapids: exact normalized name + state only, no fuzzy expansion, so nearby differently spelled facilities stay unmatched.
On this page every temperature, precipitation, and derived score for Roanoke Rapids 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.