All-time weather records — Pawleys Island, SC

Record high
102.9°F
July 18, 1986
Record low
3.9°F
January 21, 1985
Wettest day
14.71 in
September 16, 1999

Climate change signal in Pawleys Island

7.9%

of Pawleys Island's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (29 of 366 records since 2015).

2.2%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (8 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 #
1950s
8
9
1960s
50
136
1970s
92
91
1980s
98
79
1990s
53
26
2000s
24
13
2010s
27
10
2020s
14
2

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 1958, the latest in 2025. Period of observation: 1957-2026.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 84.0°F — Jan 31, 1975 3.9°F — Jan 21, 1985 4.01 in — Jan 24, 1999
February 88.0°F — Feb 28, 1962 10.9°F — Feb 12, 1968 3.74 in — Feb 7, 1965
March 90.0°F — Mar 10, 1974 14.0°F — Mar 3, 1980 4.66 in — Mar 17, 1983
April 93.9°F — Apr 24, 1970 27.0°F — Apr 20, 1983 5.50 in — Apr 7, 2016
May 98.1°F — May 25, 2000 30.0°F — May 8, 1989 5.10 in — May 10, 1979
June 102.0°F — Jun 21, 1990 46.0°F — Jun 1, 1984 6.44 in — Jun 7, 1964
July 102.9°F — Jul 18, 1986 55.0°F — Jul 2, 1988 5.80 in — Jul 21, 2018
August 100.9°F — Aug 1, 1980 55.0°F — Aug 18, 1979 6.78 in — Aug 30, 1971
September 98.1°F — Sep 15, 1980 41.0°F — Sep 24, 1967 14.71 in — Sep 16, 1999
October 96.1°F — Oct 5, 1986 26.1°F — Oct 29, 1976 9.85 in — Oct 5, 2015
November 86.0°F — Nov 3, 1972 17.1°F — Nov 25, 1970 7.80 in — Nov 2, 1969
December 82.9°F — Dec 16, 1971 3.9°F — Dec 25, 1989 6.87 in — Dec 18, 2023

Click a month to see every daily record for that month in Pawleys Island.