Kenan Stadium, Chapel Hill
Kenan Stadium: 7:30 pm Saturdays score 95, 3:30 pm Saturdays 88
Home of North Carolina · ACC · capacity 50,500 · Turf
- 91all Saturdays, Comfortable
- 42ndof 167 stadiums
91 is Comfortable, and most stadiums score lower.
How the rank works
All 167 stadiums with eight seasons of regular-season Saturdays are ranked by their weather score across every kickoff time, highest first; 1st is the most pleasant. A season can swing a score by 2 to 3 points, so allowing for year-to-year noise (about two chances in three) it ranks between 17th and 77th.
Show a month
All Saturdays
- noon: 89, Mixed
- 3:30 pm: 88, Mixed
- 7:30 pm: 95, Comfortable
Weather score at each kickoff time.
September
In September at Kenan Stadium, a 7:30 pm Saturday scores 97 and a noon or 3:30 pm Saturday 77.
- noon: 77, Mixed
- 3:30 pm: 77, Mixed
- 7:30 pm: 97, Comfortable
Weather score at each kickoff time.
October
In October at Kenan Stadium, a 7:30 pm Saturday scores 98 and a noon Saturday 93.
- noon: 93, Comfortable
- 3:30 pm: 95, Comfortable
- 7:30 pm: 98, Comfortable
Weather score at each kickoff time.
November
In November at Kenan Stadium, a noon Saturday scores 96 and a 7:30 pm Saturday 90.
- noon: 96, Comfortable
- 3:30 pm: 93, Comfortable
- 7:30 pm: 90, Comfortable
Weather score at each kickoff time.
At kickoff, 114 regular-season Saturdays at each kickoff time, 2018 to 2025.
All Saturdays
Best kickoff time: 7:30 pm (95). Roughest kickoff time: noon and 3:30 pm (89 and 88).
September
Best kickoff time: 7:30 pm (97). Roughest kickoff time: noon and 3:30 pm (77 and 77).
October
Best kickoff time: 7:30 pm (98). Roughest kickoff time: noon and 3:30 pm (93 and 95).
November
Best kickoff time: noon (96). Roughest kickoff time: 7:30 pm (90).
The roughest kickoff time is the lowest of the day's times. It can still be Mixed or Comfortable.
What goes with it
Share of Saturdays here that feel this way over the first 3 hours and 20 minutes after kickoff.
All Saturdays
Feel 85°F or hotter
September
Feel 85°F or hotter
October
At every kickoff time, fewer than 5 in 100 of October Saturdays here feel 85°F or hotter, and fewer than 5 in 100 feel under 32°F.
November
At every kickoff time, fewer than 5 in 100 of November Saturdays here feel 85°F or hotter, and fewer than 5 in 100 feel under 32°F.
Weather score: 0 to 100, higher is better. Ideal is 100, Comfortable 90 to 99, Mixed 75 to 89, Rough 50 to 74, Harsh under 50.
Across all Saturdays, Kenan Stadium scores higher than 5 of the other 14 ACC stadiums
All Saturdays
- California Memorial Stadium (California): 97, Comfortable
- Stanford Stadium (Stanford): 97, Comfortable
- Allegacy Federal Credit Union Stadium (Wake Forest): 92, Comfortable
- Memorial Stadium (Clemson): 92, Comfortable
- Scott Stadium (Virginia): 92, Comfortable
- Alumni Stadium (Boston College): 91, Comfortable
- Carter-Finley Stadium (NC State): 91, Comfortable
- Kenan Stadium (North Carolina): 91, Comfortable
- Lane Stadium (Virginia Tech): 91, Comfortable
- Wallace Wade Stadium (Duke): 91, Comfortable
- Bobby Dodd Stadium (Georgia Tech): 90, Comfortable
- Acrisure Stadium (Pittsburgh): 89, Mixed
- L&N Federal Credit Union Stadium (Louisville): 89, Mixed
- Doak Campbell Stadium (Florida State): 84, Mixed
- Gerald J. Ford Stadium (SMU): 84, Mixed
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Kenan Stadium scores 91, higher than 5, lower than 5 and level with 4 of the other 14 ACC stadiums. Scores run 84 to 97.
Noon Saturdays
- California Memorial Stadium (California): 97, Comfortable
- Stanford Stadium (Stanford): 96, Comfortable
- Lane Stadium (Virginia Tech): 93, Comfortable
- Allegacy Federal Credit Union Stadium (Wake Forest): 92, Comfortable
- Alumni Stadium (Boston College): 92, Comfortable
- Scott Stadium (Virginia): 92, Comfortable
- Memorial Stadium (Clemson): 91, Comfortable
- Acrisure Stadium (Pittsburgh): 90, Comfortable
- Bobby Dodd Stadium (Georgia Tech): 89, Mixed
- Carter-Finley Stadium (NC State): 89, Mixed
- Kenan Stadium (North Carolina): 89, Mixed
- L&N Federal Credit Union Stadium (Louisville): 89, Mixed
- Wallace Wade Stadium (Duke): 89, Mixed
- Gerald J. Ford Stadium (SMU): 81, Mixed
- Doak Campbell Stadium (Florida State): 79, Mixed
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Kenan Stadium scores 89, higher than 2, lower than 8 and level with 4 of the other 14 ACC stadiums. Scores run 79 to 97.
3:30 pm Saturdays
- California Memorial Stadium (California): 97, Comfortable
- Stanford Stadium (Stanford): 95, Comfortable
- Lane Stadium (Virginia Tech): 91, Comfortable
- Scott Stadium (Virginia): 91, Comfortable
- Allegacy Federal Credit Union Stadium (Wake Forest): 90, Comfortable
- Alumni Stadium (Boston College): 90, Comfortable
- Memorial Stadium (Clemson): 90, Comfortable
- Acrisure Stadium (Pittsburgh): 88, Mixed
- Carter-Finley Stadium (NC State): 88, Mixed
- Kenan Stadium (North Carolina): 88, Mixed
- Wallace Wade Stadium (Duke): 88, Mixed
- Bobby Dodd Stadium (Georgia Tech): 87, Mixed
- L&N Federal Credit Union Stadium (Louisville): 86, Mixed
- Gerald J. Ford Stadium (SMU): 79, Mixed
- Doak Campbell Stadium (Florida State): 78, Mixed
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Kenan Stadium scores 88, higher than 4, lower than 7 and level with 3 of the other 14 ACC stadiums. Scores run 78 to 97.
7:30 pm Saturdays
- Stanford Stadium (Stanford): 98, Comfortable
- California Memorial Stadium (California): 97, Comfortable
- Bobby Dodd Stadium (Georgia Tech): 95, Comfortable
- Carter-Finley Stadium (NC State): 95, Comfortable
- Doak Campbell Stadium (Florida State): 95, Comfortable
- Kenan Stadium (North Carolina): 95, Comfortable
- Memorial Stadium (Clemson): 95, Comfortable
- Wallace Wade Stadium (Duke): 95, Comfortable
- Allegacy Federal Credit Union Stadium (Wake Forest): 94, Comfortable
- Scott Stadium (Virginia): 93, Comfortable
- Gerald J. Ford Stadium (SMU): 92, Comfortable
- L&N Federal Credit Union Stadium (Louisville): 92, Comfortable
- Lane Stadium (Virginia Tech): 90, Comfortable
- Acrisure Stadium (Pittsburgh): 89, Mixed
- Alumni Stadium (Boston College): 89, Mixed
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Kenan Stadium scores 95, higher than 7, lower than 2 and level with 5 of the other 14 ACC stadiums. Scores run 89 to 98.
One dot per stadium: 15 ACC stadiums. Every ACC stadium by month.
More about Kenan Stadium
Pines ring the bowl on a wooded campus clearing; Rameses the ram stands watch from the Tar Heel sideline.
- The roughest game played hereClemson at North Carolina, Sept. 28, 2019: feels like 92°F, weather score 59 (Rough). Heat took off the most points.
- This weekSyracuse at North Carolina, Saturday, Oct. 24, 7:30 pm ET.
- Kickoff timesHow games here landed among each Saturday’s kickoff times.
- NetworksHow kickoff times and TV networks line up.
- Rivalry weatherNC State vs North Carolina (Carolina-State): the two home stadiums side by side.
The table behind this page
| Season | Noon | 3:30 pm | 7:30 pm |
|---|---|---|---|
| All Saturdays | 89 | 88 | 95 |
| September | 77 | 77 | 97 |
| October | 93 | 95 | 98 |
| November | 96 | 93 | 90 |
| Saturdays counted | 114 | 114 | 114 |
How this is measured
The score covers the first 3 hours and 20 minutes after kickoff, averaged over every regular-season Saturday from late August to early December, 2018 to 2025, using the nearest airport’s readings, not the stands. Shade, delays and smoke are not in it. This stadium uses an airport 24 km away; the nearest one has too little history. Scores within about 2 points are effectively tied. It describes what these Saturdays were like. It is not a forecast and it says nothing about home advantage.
Weather observations: National Weather Service, through the Iowa Environmental Mesonet at Iowa State University. Weather score version 2.2.