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Charlotte Turkey Trot weather
November 26, 2026 · Charlotte, NC · scheduled start 8:10 AM (America/New_York). What the start usually feels like, year by year — and a live start-time read once the race is inside the 7-day forecast window.
Countdown
91 days to race day
The live race-day forecast unlocks 85 days from now, when November 26, 2026 enters the 7-day forecast window — a start-time read for the scheduled 8:10 AM start. Until then, live hourly data is not available; the history below shows what race morning usually looks like.
Typical start temp
40°F
median of 20 years
A warm year
45°F
75th percentile start temp
Rain at the start
10%
2 of 20 measured years
Race-morning weather history
Late-Nov Charlotte mornings: 30s-40s F, mild for the genre, rain possible. 2020: no in-person race (virtual encouraged). Wyndo tracks what this calendar slot has actually served up at the start hour — temperature, dew point, wind, and rain — including the years when weather canceled or disrupted the race, and reads the live forecast for the start once race week arrives.
Median start temp
40°F
p75 (a warm year): 45°F
Median dew point
32°F
at the start hour
Rain at the start
10%
2 of 20 measured years
Warmest start
62°F
in 2007
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| Year | Start temp | Dew point | Wind | Precip (start hr) | Day's high |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 38°F | 22°F | 5 mph | dry | 55°F |
| 2024 | 56°F | 55°F | 13 mph | 0.4 mm | 66°F |
| 2023 | 37°F | 34°F | 4 mph | dry | 58°F |
| 2022 | 41°F | 32°F | 6 mph | dry | 62°F |
| 2021 | 33°F | 25°F | 7 mph | dry | 64°F |
| 2020 | 58°F | 56°F | 7 mph | 0.4 mm | 69°F |
| 2019 | 45°F | 28°F | 6 mph | dry | 62°F |
| 2018 | 35°F | 31°F | 5 mph | dry | 56°F |
| 2017 | 37°F | 27°F | 6 mph | dry | 52°F |
| 2016 | 49°F | 46°F | 3 mph | dry | 74°F |
| 2015 | 41°F | 35°F | 7 mph | dry | 66°F |
| 2014 | 38°F | 29°F | 5 mph | dry | 49°F |
| 2013 | 24°F | 16°F | 3 mph | dry | 44°F |
| 2012 | 36°F | 29°F | 6 mph | dry | 65°F |
| 2011 | 39°F | 29°F | 5 mph | dry | 63°F |
| 2010 | 48°F | 40°F | 3 mph | dry | 63°F |
| 2009 | 43°F | 42°F | 0 mph | dry | 57°F |
| 2008 | 28°F | 24°F | 4 mph | dry | 62°F |
| 2007 | 62°F | 55°F | 12 mph | dry | 71°F |
| 2006 | 44°F | 40°F | 7 mph | dry | 63°F |
Slot climatology: each row is the weather at this race's usual calendar slot and start hour (ERA5 reanalysis at the start line) — including years when the edition was canceled or moved. A computed slot date is not a claim the race ran that day.
Your heat-adjusted goal for the 8k
The same cited model as the full calculator, pointed at this race: the median start-hour conditions this calendar slot has served up — climatology, not a forecast.
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Race facts
- Start line
- SouthPark Mall ("Starting and finishing at the SouthPark Mall"); mall-centroid geocode — approximate, the exact perimeter street is unpublished.
- Scheduled start
- 8:10 AM (America/New_York) — Headline 8K fires 8:10 AM ET; the day's FIRST gun is the 1-Mile fun run at 8:00 (a different race, not a wave), then Tot Trot 8:30 and 5K 9:10 (2026 RunSignup JSON-LD; the official-site schedule page was empty as of 2026-08-26). No wheelchair/elite gun found.
- Field size
- CONFLICT carried deliberately: 10,667 total 2025 result rows vs 9,379 in the RunSignup Top-100 count (plausibly Tot Trot/1-mile/untimed rows in the former; unresolved). Not a clean timed-finisher count.
- Registration
- open (RunSignup; closes the day before the race)
Wyndo is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Charlotte Turkey Trot (officially the "CPI Security Charlotte Turkey Trot") or its organizers. Race names are used descriptively to identify the event; schedules and start times belong to the race — always confirm details on the official site. Weather guidance here is informational, never medical advice, and event alert flags on race day belong to the race's own medical team.