All-time weather records — Chapel Hill, NC

Record high
104.0°F
June 29, 2012
Record low
3.2°F
January 7, 2018
Wettest day
5.28 in
September 5, 1999

Climate change signal in Chapel Hill

16.4%

of Chapel Hill's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (60 of 366 records since 2015).

15.6%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (57 of 366 records since 2015).

If records were spread evenly across the station's history, you'd expect roughly 5% per decade. Decade-by-decade, here's where each record-breaking day was set:

Decade Heat records set # Cold records set #
1990s
5
14
2000s
197
220
2010s
164
132

Records are the all-time daily extremes that are still standing — each daily record can only be held by one year. The station's earliest hot record was set in 1999, the latest in 2018. Period of observation: 1999-2018.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 80.1°F — Jan 30, 2002 3.2°F — Jan 7, 2018 1.85 in — Jan 19, 2002
February 81.0°F — Feb 12, 2017 6.3°F — Feb 20, 2015 1.85 in — Feb 5, 2010
March 86.0°F — Mar 16, 2016 16.0°F — Mar 5, 2002 2.49 in — Mar 29, 2001
April 91.0°F — Apr 6, 2010 26.2°F — Apr 8, 2007 2.84 in — Apr 24, 2017
May 93.9°F — May 31, 2011 36.0°F — May 23, 2002 4.49 in — May 15, 2014
June 104.0°F — Jun 29, 2012 48.0°F — Jun 2, 2003 5.13 in — Jun 30, 2013
July 102.0°F — Jul 7, 2010 55.9°F — Jul 2, 2008 4.14 in — Jul 23, 2000
August 104.0°F — Aug 9, 2007 52.0°F — Aug 7, 2004 4.80 in — Aug 27, 2008
September 97.0°F — Sep 3, 2010 42.1°F — Sep 23, 1999 5.28 in — Sep 5, 1999
October 91.9°F — Oct 8, 2007 27.0°F — Oct 29, 2001 4.46 in — Oct 8, 2016
November 82.9°F — Nov 1, 2003 17.2°F — Nov 19, 2014 2.67 in — Nov 11, 2009
December 79.0°F — Dec 10, 2007 10.9°F — Dec 20, 2004 2.54 in — Dec 30, 2015

Click a month to see every daily record for that month in Chapel Hill.