Climate averages 1991–2020
Cary weather
in February.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 10th warmest and the 2nd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
February is a cool month in Cary: daytime highs average 11.6°C and nights cool to about 2.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 81 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes February a moderately wet month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 52 min on an average February day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Raleigh (13 km away). In February its highs average 11.9°C, about as warm as Cary, with 81 mm of rain.
Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Cary ranks joint 254th of 498 for the warmest February highs and joint 322nd of 498 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 498 cities is 11.1°C; Cary is 0.4°C warmer than that mean.
From February to March, average highs rise by 4.1°C to 15.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 81 mm to 104 mm.
The annual picture
February in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Cary climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9.5°C0.9°C | 0.9°C | 93 | 9.3 | 10.010 h |
| February, selected | 11.6°C2.0°C | 2.0°C | 81 | 9.1 | 10.911 h |
| March | 15.7°C5.3°C | 5.3°C | 104 | 10.3 | 11.912 h |
| April | 21.0°C10.3°C | 10.3°C | 90 | 9.1 | 13.113 h |
| May | 25.3°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 90 | 10.4 | 14.014 h |
| June | 29.2°C19.7°C | 19.7°C | 103 | 12.1 | 14.515 h |
| July | 31.0°C22.0°C | 22.0°C | 116 | 15.2 | 14.314 h |
| August | 29.8°C21.1°C | 21.1°C | 111 | 12.4 | 13.514 h |
| September | 26.6°C18.2°C | 18.2°C | 120 | 10.2 | 12.412 h |
| October | 21.2°C12.1°C | 12.1°C | 79 | 7.2 | 11.311 h |
| November | 15.5°C6.4°C | 6.4°C | 85 | 7.7 | 10.310 h |
| December | 11.2°C2.7°C | 2.7°C | 90 | 9.1 | 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
February in nearby cities
- Raleigh in FebruaryUnited States · 13 kmHigh 11.9°C · Low 2.1°C · 81 mm rain
- Durham in FebruaryUnited States · 25 kmHigh 11.6°C · Low 1.2°C · 81 mm rain
- Fayetteville in FebruaryUnited States · 83 kmHigh 13.2°C · Low 3.1°C · 82 mm rain
- Greensboro in FebruaryUnited States · 96 kmHigh 10.7°C · Low 0.6°C · 81 mm rain
- High Point in FebruaryUnited States · 112 kmHigh 10.7°C · Low 0.6°C · 84 mm rain
- Greenville in FebruaryUnited States · 129 kmHigh 12.8°C · Low 2.8°C · 79 mm rain
- Winston-Salem in FebruaryUnited States · 136 kmHigh 10.7°C · Low 0.4°C · 83 mm rain
- Concord (North Carolina), United States in FebruaryUnited States · 168 kmHigh 12.0°C · Low 2.2°C · 84 mm rain
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 limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Cary) is explained once on the Cary year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Raleigh lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.