Surf City, NC Climate: Temperature by Month
Annual temperature and rainfall from NOAA NCEI's 1991–2020 normals →; comfort score computed by PlainClimate
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Surf City's primary NOAA station, SURF CITY.
The climate verdict for Surf City
Surf City, North Carolina has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 62°F. July is the warmest month at 80°F and January the coldest at 44°F.
- 62°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 232 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Surf City: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00318380 · Surf City, NC 62°F mean
TEMP-MILD · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-UNK · SWING-MID · COMF-UNK · LOAD-MIX · STN-1 · BOOK-PART
- TEMP-MILD 62°F
- RANK-UPPER #5,489
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Calhoun Falls
- PRCP-UNK Rain n/a
- SWING-MID 35°F
- COMF-UNK Comfort n/a
- LOAD-MIX H/C balanced
- STN-1 USC00318380
- BOOK-PART 4/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Calhoun Falls, SC (+ 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.
- Surf City (this station) 62°F
- Hot Elizabethtown, NC 62°F
- Near Calhoun Falls, SC 62°F
- Near Covington, GA 62°F
- Near Edenton, NC 62°F
Climate Living Index · Surf City
Surf City: 90/100 · grade A
Surf City publishes 3 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 3 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Surf City, not an official NOAA rating. Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 0 calendar days | 100/100 · A |
| Annual temperature balance | 62.1°F · 5.4° from 67.5°F | 83/100 · B |
| Frost-free season | 232 days/year | 82/100 · B |
Surf City · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method .
National standing · balanced station
Where Surf City sits across the climate record
Available NOAA 1991–2020 fields for Surf City are ranked only against stations that publish the same field, missing metrics stay blank rather than estimated.
- Annual temperature
- Top 20% warmest
- Among 6,861 stations, Surf City sits in the warmer third of annual means.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 82%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Surf City 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 | 55°F (13°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 44°F (7°C) | N/A | 17.1 | 0.0 |
| February | 57°F (14°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 46°F (8°C) | N/A | 14.2 | 0.0 |
| March | 63°F (17°C) | 40°F (5°C) | 52°F (11°C) | N/A | 9.3 | 0.0 |
| April | 72°F (22°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 61°F (16°C) | N/A | 1.0 | 0.1 |
| May | 78°F (26°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 69°F (20°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| June | 84°F (29°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 76°F (24°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 5.4 |
| July | 88°F (31°C) | 72°F (22°C) | 80°F (26°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 8.9 |
| August | 87°F (30°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 79°F (26°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 6.3 |
| September | 82°F (28°C) | 65°F (18°C) | 74°F (23°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 2.4 |
| October | 74°F (24°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 64°F (18°C) | N/A | 0.7 | 0.1 |
| November | 66°F (19°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 55°F (13°C) | N/A | 6.1 | 0.0 |
| December | 59°F (15°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 47°F (8°C) | N/A | 12.1 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
The calendar barely moves in Surf City: no date carries a normal high of 90°F or a normal low at freezing. The year runs between 33°F near January 5 and 88°F near July 15.
No freezing date
Not one calendar date in the 1991–2020 record carries a normal low at or below 32°F. The coldest normal low of the year is 33°F around January 5.
The widest day
March 12 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 23°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Surf City.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
November 13
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
March 26
50% probability date
Growing Season
232 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
2,771
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
1,745
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside NC closest to Surf City 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 (62°F here).
- Calhoun Falls, SC 62°F · 0.0°F off
- Covington, GA 62°F · 0.0°F off
- Frederick, OK 62°F · 0.0°F off
- Marianna, AR 62°F · 0.0°F off
Data-derived climate profile
How Surf City's climate pattern fits together
mixed demand · mid swing
July and January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Surf City's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 35.3°F. The annual average is 62°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Heating and cooling both register in Surf City's normal, at 2,771 and 1,745 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 232-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 Surf City'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 Surf City'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 Surf City, the bands are descriptive ranges rather than an official NOAA classification or a forecast.
Questions about Surf City'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 Surf City's primary station: SURF CITY (USC00318380). 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 3766040). Match rule for Surf City: 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 Surf City 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.