Grandfather MountainPlanning Your VisitWeather Conditions

Click to see real-time weather readings and a seven-day forecast from the Grandfather Mountain Nature Museum. For Ray's Weather Center forecast, click here.

A new visitor center is under construction atop Grandfather Mountain in 2008, so all weather equipment at the summit has been taken off line. Summit weather data will return in summer 2009.

Live Web Cam

See a live web cam view of the profile of Grandfather Mountain (weather permitting) courtesy of High Country Web Cams and AppNet.com.

Other Grandfather Mountain Weather Data

Below are links to the different types of Grandfather Mountain weather information available on this Web site.

• Interactive weather database
• 51 years of weather records

Average temperatures on Grandfather

In general, temperatures on Grandfather Mountain will be 10 degrees cooler than in the foothills.

Dec. – Feb.	Hi. – 37	Lo. – 22
March - May	Hi. – 53	Lo. – 37
June - Aug.	Hi. – 68	Lo. – 55
Sept. - Nov.	Hi. – 55	Lo. - 41