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Wilmington, NC 34.267°N, 77.900°W · station ILMthr · 154 years of record
71°F
COLDEST JUL 14 SINCE 2018
forecast low · Jul 14
NWS NDFD forecast low temperature for Wilmington.
71° TUE 7/14 73° WED 7/15 74° THU 7/16 77° FRI 7/17 78° SAT 7/18 78° SUN 7/19 This Day in History · Jul 14
Today ranks #44 / 152
coldest Jul 14 in 152 yrs of record
Coldest Jul 14 ever 61°F
set in 1918
Mildest Jul 14 ever 79°F
set in 1981
Coldest Jul 14 — Year by Year
Every year's low on Jul 14 at Wilmington. The forecast line shows where today lands; the ringed bar is the coldest on record.
61 70 79 1874: 73°F 1875: 74°F 1876: 75°F 1877: 69°F 1878: 75°F 1879: 74°F 1880: 73°F 1881: 78°F 1882: 71°F 1883: 73°F 1884: 73°F 1885: 74°F 1886: 74°F 1887: 71°F 1888: 70°F 1889: 75°F 1890: 73°F 1891: 72°F 1892: 71°F 1893: 72°F 1894: 73°F 1895: 70°F 1896: 73°F 1897: 70°F 1898: 74°F 1899: 72°F 1900: 70°F 1901: 72°F 1902: 68°F 1903: 67°F 1904: 69°F 1905: 72°F 1906: 70°F 1907: 67°F 1908: 74°F 1909: 74°F 1910: 70°F 1911: 68°F 1912: 70°F 1913: 76°F 1914: 77°F 1915: 70°F 1916: 75°F 1917: 75°F 1918: 61°F 1919: 70°F 1920: 73°F 1921: 72°F 1922: 71°F 1923: 73°F 1924: 73°F 1925: 68°F 1926: 70°F 1927: 72°F 1928: 72°F 1929: 70°F 1930: 72°F 1931: 75°F 1932: 71°F 1933: 64°F 1934: 73°F 1935: 71°F 1936: 70°F 1937: 73°F 1938: 76°F 1939: 75°F 1940: 67°F 1941: 73°F 1942: 74°F 1943: 73°F 1944: 76°F 1945: 71°F 1946: 77°F 1947: 69°F 1948: 74°F 1949: 73°F 1950: 74°F 1951: 73°F 1952: 67°F 1953: 69°F 1954: 75°F 1955: 70°F 1956: 72°F 1957: 71°F 1958: 73°F 1959: 71°F 1960: 69°F 1961: 73°F 1962: 73°F 1963: 69°F 1964: 74°F 1965: 72°F 1966: 78°F 1967: 73°F 1968: 73°F 1969: 70°F 1970: 68°F 1971: 71°F 1972: 73°F 1973: 66°F 1974: 63°F 1975: 75°F 1976: 74°F 1977: 72°F 1978: 63°F 1979: 76°F 1980: 75°F 1981: 79°F 1982: 71°F 1983: 77°F 1984: 72°F 1985: 73°F 1986: 77°F 1987: 74°F 1988: 71°F 1989: 72°F 1990: 73°F 1991: 74°F 1992: 78°F 1993: 76°F 1994: 77°F 1995: 73°F 1996: 68°F 1997: 67°F 1998: 68°F 1999: 73°F 2000: 69°F 2001: 63°F 2002: 73°F 2003: 71°F 2004: 75°F 2005: 72°F 2006: 77°F 2007: 68°F 2008: 68°F 2009: 70°F 2010: 74°F 2011: 70°F 2012: 73°F 2013: 76°F 2014: 75°F 2015: 73°F 2016: 75°F 2017: 78°F 2018: 68°F 2019: 74°F 2020: 72°F 2021: 74°F 2022: 76°F 2023: 76°F 2024: 77°F 2025: 73°F 71° forecast 1874 1918 2025 Forecast low · Jul 14 71°F Coldest this date since 2018 This-date record 61°F This-date rank #44 of 152
Coldest at any time since 2026 All-time record 0°F (1989) Odds to tie/break 0.0% (daily) Period of record 1873–2026
The hottest and coldest ever recorded at Wilmington in each calendar month, and for the whole 1873–2026 record — with the year each was set.
Month Record High Record Low Jan 83°F 2024 5°F 1985 Feb 86°F 2023 5°F 1899 Mar 94°F 1907 9°F 1980 Apr 95°F 1967 28°F 1875 May 101°F 2019 35°F 1963 Jun 104°F 1952 48°F 1983 Jul 103°F 1879 54°F 1919 Aug 103°F 1999 55°F 1982 Sep 100°F 1925 42°F 1887 Oct 98°F 2019 27°F 1962 Nov 87°F 1974 16°F 1950 Dec 82°F 1998 0°F 1989 All-time 104°F 1952 0°F 1989
Records set or tied at Wilmington so far this year — through Jul 11.
Record Highs in 2026 3 broke
plus 3 tied — daily record highs set this year
Record Lows in 2026 1 broke
plus 0 tied — daily record lows set this year
Current run 0 days
consecutive days with a low ≤ 32°F
Longest ever 21 days
record run, ended Jan 7 2001
So far in 2026 32 days
days with a low ≤ 32°F this year
Normal low & low by month, from Wilmington's own 1991–2020 record. Today's normal low: 73°F · forecast is -2° vs normal .
Jan: 57°F Jan: 36°F Feb: 60°F Feb: 38°F Mar: 66°F Mar: 44°F Apr: 74°F Apr: 52°F May: 81°F May: 61°F Jun: 87°F Jun: 69°F Jul: 90°F Jul: 73°F Aug: 88°F Aug: 72°F Sep: 84°F Sep: 67°F Oct: 76°F Oct: 56°F Nov: 67°F Nov: 45°F Dec: 60°F Dec: 39°F J F M A M J J A S O N D Sun & Daylight Today Sunrise 5:09 AM Sunset 7:25 PM Solar noon 12:17 PM Daylight 14h 16m · losing 6 min/wk
Local standard time (no DST), level horizon.
Location 34.27°N, 77.90°W Wilmington's observed daily low for the last six weeks — a white ring marks any day that broke or tied its daily record for that date.
Every day this year against Wilmington's own record — the record low, the normal, and the full span ever seen. A shareable look at where the year stands.
Each cell is one day's low at Wilmington, coloured by temperature — 154 years of record, so heat waves read as warm streaks and cold snaps as blue.
How many days a year hit a given low at Wilmington — counted through Jul 14 each year, so you can see whether 2026 is running cold. Pick a threshold:
40° 32° 20° 10° 0° -10° -20°
32 days ≤32°F so far in 2026 — tied for the 20th most in 154 years. Normal for this point: 22 . Record: 53 in 1968.
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