Average October Temperatures for North Carolina

Average temperatures for October 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 October temperatures
High °F	Low °F	Place	High °C	Low °C
69	47	Asheville	21	8
62	40	Banner Elk	17	5
60	43	Blowing Rock	16	6
63	39	Boone	17	4
70	44	Cullowhee	21	7
57	42	Grandfather Mountain	14	5
63	41	Highlands	17	5
72	46	Kerr Scott Reservoir	22	8
71	46	Morganton	22	8
71	46	North Wilkesboro	21	8
70	43	Pisgah Forest	21	6
70	46	Tapoco	21	8
70	48	Waterville	21	9
71	49	Winston-Salem	21	10

Piedmont

Average daily temperatures in October
High °F	Low °F	Place	High °C	Low °C
73	50	Albemarle	23	10
73	49	Burlington	23	9
71	50	Cary	22	10
72	49	Chapel Hill	22	9
73	50	Charlotte	23	10
74	48	Concord	24	9
70	48	Durham	21	9
74	51	Gastonia	24	11
71	49	Greensboro	22	10
72	45	Henderson	22	7
70	49	Hickory	21	9
73	50	High Point	23	10
70	43	Mount Airy	21	6
73	50	Raleigh	23	10
74	45	Shelby	23	7

North Carolina Coast

October temperatures: daily averages
High °F	Low °F	Place	High °C	Low °C
74	60	Atlantic Beach	24	16
75	57	Beaufort	24	14
75	52	Belhaven	24	11
75	61	Cape Hatteras	24	16
79	59	Cedar Island	26	15
73	54	Edenton	23	12
74	55	Elizabeth City	23	13
75	51	Fayetteville	24	11
75	54	Goldsboro	24	12
74	52	Greenville	23	11
74	50	Hofmann Forest	23	10
76	51	Jacksonville	24	11
76	53	Kinston	24	12
75	52	Lumberton	24	11
71	58	Manteo	22	15
75	57	Morehead City	24	14
75	54	New Bern	24	12
73	60	Ocracoke	23	16
71	50	Roanoke Rapids	22	10
72	50	Rocky Mount	22	10
79	54	Southport	26	12
76	56	Wilmington	25	13
73	52	Wilson	23	11

Average Temperatures for North Carolina in October

North Carolina Mountains

Piedmont

North Carolina Coast

Reference

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