Rural Hall, 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 Rural Hall's primary NOAA station, RURAL HALL.
The climate verdict for Rural Hall
Rural Hall, North Carolina has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 57°F. July is the warmest month at 77°F and January the coldest at 38°F.
- 57°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 208 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Rural Hall: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00317548 · Rural Hall, NC 57°F mean
TEMP-MILD · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-UNK · SWING-MID · COMF-UNK · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-PART
- TEMP-MILD 57°F
- RANK-UPPER #4,665
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Bishop
- PRCP-UNK Rain n/a
- SWING-MID 39°F
- COMF-UNK Comfort n/a
- LOAD-HEAT 3,956 HDD
- STN-1 USC00317548
- BOOK-PART 4/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Bishop, CA ( -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 Kingsport, TN 58°F
- Rural Hall (this station) 57°F
- Cold N Wilkesboro, NC 57°F
- Near Bishop, CA 57°F
- Near Centerville, TN 57°F
Climate Living Index · Rural Hall
Rural Hall: 75/100 · grade B
Rural Hall publishes 3 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 3 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Rural Hall, not an official NOAA rating. Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 79 calendar days | 83/100 · B |
| Frost-free season | 208 days/year | 70/100 · B |
| Annual temperature balance | 57.4°F · 10.1° from 67.5°F | 68/100 · C |
Rural Hall · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method .
National standing · heating-led station
Where Rural Hall sits across the climate record
Available NOAA 1991–2020 fields for Rural Hall are ranked only against stations that publish the same field, missing metrics stay blank rather than estimated.
- Annual temperature
- 68th percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 32nd percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude 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 | 48°F (9°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 38°F (3°C) | N/A | 21.6 | 0.0 |
| February | 51°F (11°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 41°F (5°C) | N/A | 19.0 | 0.0 |
| March | 59°F (15°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 48°F (9°C) | N/A | 11.2 | 0.0 |
| April | 69°F (21°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 57°F (14°C) | N/A | 2.0 | 0.2 |
| May | 77°F (25°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 65°F (19°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| June | 84°F (29°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 73°F (23°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 5.5 |
| July | 87°F (31°C) | 67°F (19°C) | 77°F (25°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 10.0 |
| August | 85°F (29°C) | 65°F (18°C) | 75°F (24°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 6.9 |
| September | 79°F (26°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 69°F (21°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 1.5 |
| October | 69°F (20°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 58°F (14°C) | N/A | 2.0 | 0.0 |
| November | 59°F (15°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 48°F (9°C) | N/A | 9.4 | 0.0 |
| December | 50°F (10°C) | 31°F (0°C) | 41°F (5°C) | N/A | 19.5 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 88°F around July 9, short of 90°F on every date, while 79 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 28°F near January 11.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into February 27, then returns to freezing around December 11, covering 79 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
April 18 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 24°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Rural Hall.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
October 31
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
April 6
50% probability date
Growing Season
208 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
3,956
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
1,216
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside NC closest to Rural Hall 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 (57°F here).
- Anthony, KS 57°F · 0.0°F off
- Cookeville, TN 57°F · 0.0°F off
- Doniphan, MO 57°F · 0.0°F off
- Elkton, KY 57°F · 0.0°F off
Data-derived climate profile
How Rural Hall's climate pattern fits together
heating led · mid swing
Rural Hall's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 3,956 annual heating degree days against 1,216 for cooling. Its 39.1°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Rural Hall's frost-free season lasts about 208 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 Rural Hall's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 39.1°F. The annual average is 57°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
A moisture-range label is withheld because Rural Hall'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 Rural Hall'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 Rural Hall, not an official NOAA class or a year-ahead forecast.
Questions about Rural Hall'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 Rural Hall's primary station: RURAL HALL (USC00317548). 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 3758360). Match rule for Rural Hall: 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 Rural Hall 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.