Average August Temperatures for North Carolina

Average temperatures for August at cities, communities and other locations around North Carolina are listed below in degrees Fahrenheit and Celsius.

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.

The tables give the normals for maximum and minimum temperatures based on weather data collected from 1991 to 2020 by the US National Centers for Environmental Information.

North Carolina Mountains

Average August temperatures
High °F	Low °F	Place	High °C	Low °C
85	64	Asheville	29	18
76	57	Banner Elk	25	14
75	58	Blowing Rock	24	15
78	56	Boone	25	14
84	62	Cullowhee	29	17
71	57	Grandfather Mountain	21	14
76	57	Highlands	25	14
86	65	Kerr Scott Reservoir	30	18
86	65	Morganton	30	18
85	65	North Wilkesboro	30	18
83	61	Pisgah Forest	28	16
85	61	Tapoco	29	16
85	64	Waterville	29	18
86	68	Winston-Salem	30	20

Piedmont

Average daily temperatures in August
High °F	Low °F	Place	High °C	Low °C
87	68	Albemarle	31	20
89	68	Burlington	32	20
86	68	Cary	30	20
88	68	Chapel Hill	31	20
89	69	Charlotte	31	20
90	67	Concord	32	20
85	67	Durham	29	20
89	69	Gastonia	32	21
87	68	Greensboro	30	20
88	65	Henderson	31	18
86	67	Hickory	30	19
88	68	High Point	31	20
85	62	Mount Airy	29	17
89	69	Raleigh	32	21
89	65	Shelby	32	18

North Carolina Coast

August temperatures: daily averages
High °F	Low °F	Place	High °C	Low °C
86	75	Atlantic Beach	30	24
86	73	Beaufort	30	23
87	69	Belhaven	31	20
87	74	Cape Hatteras	31	24
91	72	Cedar Island	33	22
87	71	Edenton	30	21
87	71	Elizabeth City	31	22
89	69	Fayetteville	32	21
89	71	Goldsboro	32	22
88	70	Greenville	31	21
86	66	Hofmann Forest	30	19
88	70	Jacksonville	31	21
89	70	Kinston	32	21
89	70	Lumberton	32	21
84	72	Manteo	29	22
85	72	Morehead City	30	22
88	70	New Bern	31	21
85	73	Ocracoke	29	23
88	68	Roanoke Rapids	31	20
85	67	Rocky Mount	30	20
90	71	Southport	32	22
88	72	Wilmington	31	22
88	70	Wilson	31	21

Average Temperatures for North Carolina in August

North Carolina Mountains

Piedmont

North Carolina Coast

Reference

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