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This weather has a price Keeping the median Randolph County home comfortable runs roughly $393 a year in heating and cooling alone. See where it lands in the monthly bill

30-year climate normals

Randolph County Climate and Weather Averages

Hottest month: July

88.3°

average daily high. The coldest month is January, averaging a low of 29.4°F.

Randolph County gets 46.62" of precipitation a year, and 28% of it falls in Jul, Aug, Sep.

Temperature through the year

Each bar spans the average daily low to the average daily high for that month.

40° 60° 80° JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
MonthAvg highAvg low Precip
January 50.0° 29.4° 3.95"
February 54.2° 32.1° 3.22"
March 62.0° 38.6° 4.09"
April 71.5° 46.7° 3.94"
May 78.0° 55.2° 3.76"
June 84.8° 63.2° 4.08"
July 88.3° 67.0° 4.18"
August 86.5° 65.9° 3.87"
September 80.6° 59.6° 4.84"
October 71.2° 47.8° 3.50"
November 61.0° 37.7° 3.55"
December 52.8° 32.4° 3.64"

Rainfall by month

Precipitation is spread fairly evenly through the year here, with 28% falling in the wettest three months (Jul, Aug, Sep).

January 3.95"
February 3.22"
March 4.09"
April 3.94"
May 3.76"
June 4.08"
July 4.18"
August 3.87"
September 4.84"
October 3.50"
November 3.55"
December 3.64"
Annual total 46.62"

What this climate costs you

Degree days measure how hard a building has to work to stay comfortable. They are the reason two identical houses have very different power bills, and they are the link between the weather here and what you pay every month.

Cooling degree days How much air conditioning the climate demands 1,388
Heating degree days How much heating the climate demands 3,539
Approximate annual cooling cost At 14.95¢/kWh, North Carolina average $208
Approximate annual electric heating cost Lower where heating is gas rather than electric $185

These are rough planning figures from degree days and the state electricity price, not a bill estimate. House size, insulation and fuel type move them a lot. See the full cost of owning a home in Randolph County, where electricity is one line of eight.

Common questions

What is the weather like in Randolph County?

Randolph County averages a high of 88.3°F in July and a low of 29.4°F in January. Annual precipitation is 46.62 inches, with essentially no snow.

When is the rainy season in Randolph County?

The wettest stretch is Jul, Aug, Sep, which accounts for 28% of the year's precipitation. Precipitation is relatively evenly distributed across the year.

How hot does it get in Randolph County?

The average daily high in July, the hottest month, is 88.3°F. That drives 1,388 cooling degree days a year, which is what your air conditioning has to work against.

Does it snow in Randolph County?

The weather station used for Randolph County, ASHEBORO 2 W, NC US, reports temperature and precipitation but not snowfall, so there is no snow normal to quote here. Precipitation that falls as snow is still counted in the 46.62 inches above, measured as melted water.

Sources

  • Temperature, precipitation and snowfall normals: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, 1991 to 2020 Monthly Climate Normals, station ASHEBORO 2 W, NC US (USC00310286), 1.8 miles from the county centroid.
  • Heating and cooling degree days: NOAA, same station and period.
  • Annual figures on this page are the sum of that station's twelve monthly normals. NOAA also publishes a separately-computed annual normal, which can differ from the monthly sum by a few percent; we use the monthly series because the month-by-month breakdown above has to come from it.
  • Electricity price: US Energy Information Administration, Electric Power Monthly Table 5.6.A, North Carolina residential average.
  • Wet-season share is the wettest three consecutive months as a percentage of annual precipitation, calculated from the monthly normals.