All-time weather records — Plymouth, NC

Record high
102.9°F
August 22, 1983
Record low
-5.1°F
January 21, 1985
Wettest day
12.28 in
August 27, 2011

Climate change signal in Plymouth

6.8%

of Plymouth's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (25 of 366 records since 2015).

3%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (11 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 #
1940s
38
20
1950s
52
99
1960s
23
91
1970s
61
72
1980s
69
46
1990s
43
10
2000s
41
14
2010s
32
12
2020s
7
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 1945, the latest in 2026. Period of observation: 1945-2026.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 81.0°F — Jan 31, 1950 -5.1°F — Jan 21, 1985 5.10 in — Jan 31, 1960
February 88.0°F — Feb 4, 1990 3.9°F — Feb 10, 1979 3.44 in — Feb 6, 2010
March 91.9°F — Mar 17, 1945 15.1°F — Mar 3, 1950 4.75 in — Mar 30, 1991
April 95.0°F — Apr 26, 1960 25.0°F — Apr 10, 1972 3.42 in — Apr 20, 2015
May 97.0°F — May 19, 1996 30.9°F — May 11, 1954 4.15 in — May 30, 2021
June 102.0°F — Jun 15, 1981 42.1°F — Jun 1, 1947 4.47 in — Jun 26, 1945
July 102.0°F — Jul 22, 1952 46.9°F — Jul 8, 1972 4.76 in — Jul 6, 2009
August 102.9°F — Aug 22, 1983 39.0°F — Aug 31, 1965 12.28 in — Aug 27, 2011
September 99.0°F — Sep 8, 1985 36.0°F — Sep 30, 1951 7.28 in — Sep 18, 2003
October 95.0°F — Oct 3, 2019 21.0°F — Oct 26, 1962 9.10 in — Oct 9, 2016
November 87.1°F — Nov 3, 1974 14.0°F — Nov 21, 1951 6.10 in — Nov 12, 2009
December 82.0°F — Dec 4, 1978 1.9°F — Dec 25, 1989 4.90 in — Dec 18, 2023

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