Climate averages 1991–2020

Asheville weather
in July.

A warm, wet month: the warmest and the 10th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 27.8°C Daytime mean, July

Average low 18.1°C Night-time mean, July

Rainfall 99 mm 16 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

July is a warm month in Asheville: daytime highs average 27.8°C and nights cool to about 18.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.

Expect about 99 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes July a wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 19 min on an average July day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Gastonia (129 km away). In July its highs average 31.3°C, 3.5°C warmer than Asheville, with 105 mm of rain.

Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Asheville ranks joint 366th of 498 for the warmest July highs and joint 376th of 498 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 498 cities is 30.3°C; Asheville is 2.5°C cooler than that mean.

From July to August, average highs fall by 0.7°C to 27.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 99 mm to 105 mm.

The annual picture

July in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Asheville climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Asheville, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	7.1°C-2.6°C	-2.6°C	96	10.1	10.010 h
February	9.3°C-1.0°C	-1.0°C	84	9.4	10.911 h
March	13.3°C2.4°C	2.4°C	106	11.2	11.912 h
April	18.6°C6.9°C	6.9°C	93	10.1	13.113 h
May	22.3°C11.7°C	11.7°C	90	11.5	14.014 h
June	26.0°C16.1°C	16.1°C	95	14.0	14.515 h
July, selected	27.8°C18.1°C	18.1°C	99	15.6	14.314 h
August	27.1°C17.7°C	17.7°C	105	14.3	13.514 h
September	24.2°C14.8°C	14.8°C	95	9.6	12.412 h
October	18.9°C8.5°C	8.5°C	79	7.4	11.311 h
November	13.0°C2.7°C	2.7°C	85	8.0	10.310 h
December	8.6°C-0.7°C	-0.7°C	89	8.9	9.810 h

Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.

Compare places

July in nearby cities

Distance from Asheville

Read the numbers correctly

Climate, not a promise.

These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.

Sources, method and limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Asheville) is explained once on the Asheville year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.