Climate averages 1991–2020
Fayetteville weather
in January.
A cool, wet month: the coolest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Fayetteville: daytime highs average 11.2°C and nights cool to about 2.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 90 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes January a wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 05 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Cary (83 km away). In January its highs average 9.5°C, 1.7°C cooler than Fayetteville, with 93 mm of rain.
Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Fayetteville ranks joint 231st of 498 for the warmest January highs and joint 352nd of 498 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 498 cities is 9.5°C; Fayetteville is 1.8°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 2.0°C to 13.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 90 mm to 82 mm.
The annual picture
January 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
Fayetteville climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 11.2°C2.0°C | 2.0°C | 90 | 9.1 | 10.110 h |
| February | 13.2°C3.1°C | 3.1°C | 82 | 8.6 | 10.911 h |
| March | 17.3°C6.4°C | 6.4°C | 94 | 9.4 | 11.912 h |
| April | 22.5°C11.3°C | 11.3°C | 85 | 8.2 | 13.013 h |
| May | 26.6°C16.1°C | 16.1°C | 84 | 9.7 | 14.014 h |
| June | 30.2°C20.6°C | 20.6°C | 106 | 12.1 | 14.514 h |
| July | 31.9°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 118 | 15.3 | 14.314 h |
| August | 30.5°C21.9°C | 21.9°C | 125 | 13.5 | 13.513 h |
| September | 27.6°C19.0°C | 19.0°C | 128 | 10.2 | 12.412 h |
| October | 22.4°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 82 | 7.3 | 11.311 h |
| November | 17.0°C7.2°C | 7.2°C | 80 | 7.6 | 10.410 h |
| December | 12.8°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 93 | 8.7 | 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
January in nearby cities
- Cary in JanuaryUnited States · 83 kmHigh 9.5°C · Low 0.9°C · 93 mm rain
- Raleigh in JanuaryUnited States · 83 kmHigh 9.8°C · Low 1.0°C · 93 mm rain
- Durham in JanuaryUnited States · 105 kmHigh 9.5°C · Low 0.1°C · 92 mm rain
- Wilmington (North Carolina), United States in JanuaryUnited States · 125 kmHigh 12.8°C · Low 5.2°C · 91 mm rain
- Greensboro in JanuaryUnited States · 140 kmHigh 8.5°C · Low -0.6°C · 93 mm rain
- High Point in JanuaryUnited States · 143 kmHigh 8.6°C · Low -0.5°C · 95 mm rain
- Greenville in JanuaryUnited States · 151 kmHigh 10.9°C · Low 1.9°C · 94 mm rain
- Concord (North Carolina), United States in JanuaryUnited States · 160 kmHigh 9.7°C · Low 0.8°C · 93 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 Fayetteville) is explained once on the Fayetteville year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.