Average Rainfall for North Carolina in July

The tables below give monthly averages for rainfall during July at cities, communities and other locations around North Carolina.

Each place has a total for the amount of precipitation it usually receives this month. There is also a count of the number of days with wet weather, when precipitation amounts to 0.01 inches (0.25 millimetres) or more.

The rainfall totals are averages based on weather data collected from 1991 to 2020 for the US National Centers for Environmental Information.

You can jump to a separate table for each region of the state: North Carolina Mountains in the west, Piedmont in the center, and North Carolina Coast to the east.

North Carolina Mountains

Average monthly precipitation in July
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
14 Asheville 4.1 105
15 Banner Elk 5.7 144
14 Boone 5.1 130
14 Cullowhee 5.0 127
16 Grandfather Mountain 6.2 158
17 Highlands 7.1 180
14 Kerr Scott Reservoir 4.3 109
12 Morganton 4.4 112
14 North Wilkesboro 4.5 114
16 Pisgah Forest 5.7 145
13 Tapoco 5.0 127
14 Waterville 6.5 165
13 Winston-Salem 4.2 108

Piedmont

July averages for total rainfall
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
8 Albemarle 5.2 133
12 Burlington 4.7 118
11 Chapel Hill 4.8 122
11 Charlotte 3.7 95
10 Concord 5.3 135
10 Durham 4.2 107
10 Gastonia 3.6 90
9 Greensboro 5.8 147
10 Henderson 4.4 113
12 Hickory 4.3 109
11 High Point 4.6 116
14 Mount Airy 5.2 133
12 Raleigh 5.0 128
12 Shelby 4.4 112

North Carolina Coast

Average amount of rain in July
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
10 Atlantic Beach 5.7 145
13 Beaufort 5.8 148
10 Belhaven 6.1 155
12 Cape Hatteras 5.4 137
13 Cedar Island 6.7 170
10 Edenton 6.0 153
11 Elizabeth City 5.9 151
11 Fayetteville 5.7 145
13 Goldsboro 5.4 138
12 Greenville 5.9 149
14 Hofmann Forest 6.8 171
11 Kinston 5.8 147
11 Lumberton 5.6 142
9 Manteo 5.3 134
11 Morehead City 5.7 144
14 New Bern 6.3 159
10 Ocracoke 5.0 128
10 Roanoke Rapids 5.4 136
11 Rocky Mount 5.2 133
10 Southport 5.6 141
13 Wilmington 6.9 174
11 Wilson 5.8 146
Reference

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). Climate Normals.

North Carolina Precipitation
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