North Charleston, South Carolina Climate
The warmest month is July, with an average high of 91°F; the coldest is January, with an average low of 39°F. A normal year brings 52.5 in of precipitation and 0.3 in of snow.
Temperature through the year
The normal daily high and low and the record for every date at Charleston (CHS), since 1937. The line marks today.
- Normal low
- Normal high
- Record high
- Record low
Normals for Sep 30
- Normal high
- 82°F
- Normal low
- 64°F
- Record high
- 92°Fin 1973
- Record low
- 42°Fin 1967
- Chance of a wet day
- 29%
- Daylight
- 11 h 53 min
Month by month
Averages for 1991-2020. Wet days have at least 0.01 inch of precipitation. Freeze nights have a low of 32°F or colder; degree days are on a 65°F base. Each month links to its own page.
| Month | Avg high | Avg low | Record high | Record low | Precipitation | Wet days | Snowfall | Freeze nights | Heating DD | Cooling DD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 60°F | 39°F | 83°F (1950) | 6°F (1985) | 3.37 in | 8.9 | 0.2 in | 9.1 | 483 | 4 |
| February | 64°F | 42°F | 87°F (1989) | 12°F (1973) | 3.05 in | 8.5 | 0.1 in | 4.4 | 352 | 7 |
| March | 70°F | 47°F | 90°F (1974) | 15°F (1980) | 3.35 in | 8.2 | 0.0 in | 1.6 | 227 | 31 |
| April | 77°F | 55°F | 95°F (2002) | 29°F (1944) | 3.29 in | 7.9 | 0.0 in | 0.0 | 75 | 99 |
| May | 84°F | 63°F | 101°F (2019) | 36°F (1963) | 3.32 in | 8.1 | 0.0 in | 0.0 | 9 | 266 |
| June | 89°F | 70°F | 103°F (1944) | 50°F (1972) | 6.21 in | 12.1 | 0.0 in | 0.0 | 0 | 434 |
| July | 91°F | 74°F | 104°F (1986) | 58°F (1952) | 6.60 in | 13.2 | 0.0 in | 0.0 | 0 | 542 |
| August | 90°F | 73°F | 105°F (1999) | 56°F (1979) | 6.97 in | 13.1 | 0.0 in | 0.0 | 0 | 510 |
| September | 85°F | 68°F | 99°F (1944) | 42°F (1967) | 6.01 in | 10.2 | 0.0 in | 0.0 | 2 | 357 |
| October | 78°F | 58°F | 94°F (2019) | 27°F (1976) | 4.33 in | 7.3 | 0.0 in | 0.0 | 56 | 143 |
| November | 69°F | 47°F | 88°F (1961) | 15°F (1950) | 2.66 in | 6.9 | 0.0 in | 1.3 | 234 | 32 |
| December | 63°F | 42°F | 83°F (1972) | 8°F (1962) | 3.35 in | 9.3 | 0.0 in | 6.0 | 408 | 9 |
| Year | 77°F | 56°F | 52.51 in | 114 | 0.3 in | 22 | 1,844 | 2,435 |
Precipitation
Rain and melted snow together. The chance of a wet day is the share of days with at least 0.01 inch of precipitation.
52.5 in in a normal year, most in August.
Chance of a wet day
- Chance of a wet day
- Chance of snowfall
Snow
NOAA 1991-2020 snowfall normals for Charleston Intl AP.
0.3 in of snow in a normal year.
Frost and the growing season
NOAA's 1991-2020 freeze probabilities for Charleston Intl AP. A median date has an even chance of a later freeze in spring, or an earlier one in fall.
The last spring freeze typically comes around March 7 and the first fall freeze around November 27, a growing season of about 266 days.
- Median at 36°F
- last March 21, first November 13
- Median at 32°F
- last March 7, first November 27
- Median at 28°F
- last February 20, first December 15
Plant hardiness zone
2023 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map GIS data (USDA-ARS and Oregon State University’s PRISM Climate Group), at the town’s center on the map’s 800 m grid. Zones are 10°F apart, half zones 5°F.
North Charleston is in USDA zone 9a 9a: the coldest night of the winter averages 21.8°F, within zone 9a’s 20 to 25°F.
- Zone
- 9a
- Average coldest night
- 21.8°F1991-2020
- Range of the half zone
- 20 to 25°F-6.7 to -3.9°C
Humidity and comfort
NASA POWER reanalysis, 1991-2020, for the grid cell around North Charleston.
The muggiest month is July, when 96 percent of days are muggy or worse, with a mean dew point of 65°F or more.
| Month | Dew point | Humidity | Dry | Comfortable | Humid | Muggy | Oppressive | Miserable |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 42°F | 81% | 83% | 9% | 7% | 1% | 0% | 0% |
| February | 45°F | 81% | 79% | 13% | 7% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| March | 50°F | 78% | 62% | 20% | 15% | 3% | 0% | 0% |
| April | 56°F | 75% | 41% | 21% | 25% | 12% | 1% | 0% |
| May | 63°F | 73% | 15% | 15% | 25% | 35% | 11% | 0% |
| June | 70°F | 76% | 0% | 3% | 10% | 25% | 57% | 4% |
| July | 73°F | 77% | 0% | 0% | 3% | 10% | 63% | 23% |
| August | 73°F | 79% | 0% | 1% | 3% | 14% | 59% | 23% |
| September | 69°F | 80% | 4% | 6% | 13% | 27% | 46% | 5% |
| October | 60°F | 79% | 29% | 18% | 21% | 21% | 10% | 1% |
| November | 50°F | 79% | 64% | 14% | 13% | 8% | 2% | 0% |
| December | 45°F | 82% | 75% | 12% | 9% | 3% | 0% | 0% |
Comfort is judged by the day's mean dew point: dry below 55°F, comfortable to 60°F, humid to 65°F, muggy to 70°F, oppressive to 75°F, miserable above.
Clouds
Average share of the sky covered, from satellite (CERES and GEWEX SRB) by way of NASA POWER, 1991-2020.
The clearest month is October, with the sky 45 percent covered on average; the cloudiest is February, at 60 percent.
Wind
The mean wind speed over the whole day, from the MERRA-2 reanalysis by way of NASA POWER. Gusts run well above it.
The windiest month is March, averaging 7.6 mph at 10 meters (33 feet) above the ground.
Daylight and sunshine
The longest day is Jun 22, with 14 h 20 min of daylight; the shortest is Dec 17, with 9 h 59 min.
- Day length
Solar energy
Average daily sunshine reaching the ground on a flat surface, in kilowatt-hours per square meter, clouds included.
Month pages
The weather in North Charleston in each month, day by day.
What this means
A normal is the average of the thirty years 1991 to 2020, the period the World Meteorological Organization and NOAA use for comparison. It is an average, not a forecast: most days depart from it, and some by a long way.
A record is the highest or lowest value on the date in every year the station has reported, back to 1937. It rests on one station, so a neighbor a few miles away can hold different ones.
Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine come from a reanalysis: a weather model run over the past with every observation fed in, averaged over a grid cell about 50 km across. It is consistent everywhere on Earth; it smooths local detail such as a lake shore or a valley.
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Sources
Normals: NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals, 1991-2020, station USW00013880 (Charleston Intl AP), public domain. Records: NOAA GHCN-Daily, station USW00013880, every year on file, quality-flagged values removed. Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine: NASA POWER (MERRA-2, CERES and GEWEX SRB), 1991-2020. The data was obtained from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center's Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) project funded through the NASA Earth Science Division: POWER Daily API v2, accessed 2026-09-24. Sun and moon: computed with the NOAA solar equations and Meeus. Rankings: NOAA NCEI Climate at a Glance, public domain.