Alice, Texas climate: Normal weather by month, frost dates and records
Alice's normal year runs from 45°F January nights to 98°F August afternoons, with 29.1 inches of precipitation a year. (NOAA 1991-2020 normals)
In metric: a yearly mean of 22.7°C, January lows of 7°C, August highs of 37°C, 740 mm of precipitation a year.
- NOAA stationAlice International Airport
- Station IDUSW00012932
- Location27.74°N 98.02°W
- Elevation173 ft (53 m)
- Population17,595
On October 22, the normal high in Alice is 86°F and the normal low 60°F, and the chance of measurable rain or snow is 20%.
Normals describe a typical year at the station, not a forecast. The National Weather Service forecast for Alice.
- Jan 69° 45°
- Feb 74° 49°
- Mar 79° 56°
- Apr 85° 62°
- May 90° 69°
- Jun 95° 73°
- Jul 97° 74°
- Aug 98° 74°
- Sep 93° 71°
- Oct 87° 62°
- Nov 78° 53°
- Dec 70° 47°
Each month: normal high (large) and low, °F. Fill: the month's normal mean, colder blue to hotter red.
What is the weather like in Alice each month?
August is the warmest month, with normal highs of 98°F; January the coldest, with normal lows of 45°F. The most precipitation falls in September (4.51 in), the least in January (1.19 in).
Each month has its own page with the day-by-day normals, the month's records and its recent years:
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Wet days | 90°F days | Freezing nights | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 69°F | 45°F | 57.0°F | 1.19 | 8 | <1 | 2 | 10 h 30 min |
| February | 74°F | 49°F | 61.3°F | 1.33 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 11 h 10 min |
| March | 79°F | 56°F | 67.3°F | 2.17 | 7 | 3 | <1 | 12 h |
| April | 85°F | 62°F | 73.5°F | 1.46 | 6 | 9 | <1 | 12 h 50 min |
| May | 90°F | 69°F | 79.4°F | 4.13 | 6 | 20 | <1 | 13 h 30 min |
| June | 95°F | 73°F | 84.0°F | 3.66 | 6 | 28 | <1 | 13 h 50 min |
| July | 97°F | 74°F | 85.4°F | 2.61 | 8 | 29 | <1 | 13 h 40 min |
| August | 98°F | 74°F | 86.0°F | 2.91 | 5 | 30 | <1 | 13 h 10 min |
| September | 93°F | 71°F | 81.5°F | 4.51 | 10 | 23 | <1 | 12 h 20 min |
| October | 87°F | 62°F | 74.3°F | 1.72 | 6 | 14 | <1 | 11 h 30 min |
| November | 78°F | 53°F | 65.3°F | 1.58 | 6 | 2 | <1 | 10 h 50 min |
| December | 70°F | 47°F | 58.8°F | 1.86 | 6 | <1 | 1 | 10 h 20 min |
| Year (annual) | 85°F | 61°F | 72.8°F | 29.13 | 81 | 161 | 5 |
The same normals in °C and millimetres
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 20°C | 7°C | 13.9°C | 30 mm |
| February | 23°C | 10°C | 16.3°C | 34 mm |
| March | 26°C | 13°C | 19.6°C | 55 mm |
| April | 30°C | 16°C | 23.1°C | 37 mm |
| May | 32°C | 20°C | 26.3°C | 105 mm |
| June | 35°C | 23°C | 28.9°C | 93 mm |
| July | 36°C | 23°C | 29.7°C | 66 mm |
| August | 37°C | 23°C | 30.0°C | 74 mm |
| September | 34°C | 21°C | 27.5°C | 115 mm |
| October | 31°C | 16°C | 23.5°C | 44 mm |
| November | 25°C | 12°C | 18.5°C | 40 mm |
| December | 21°C | 8°C | 14.9°C | 47 mm |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USW00012932; annual normals. Wet days: 0.01 inch or more; 90°F days and freezing nights: NOAA's day counts. Daylight: sunrise to sunset on the 15th, computed from the latitude.
When is the best weather to visit Alice?
Normal highs sit between 65°F and 85°F in January, February, March, November and December. Of those, November has the fewest days with rain (6).
That is a measurement, not a recommendation: it counts the months whose normal afternoon high sits between 65°F and 85°F, where a light layer is enough by day.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USW00012932.
When is the last frost in Alice?
In Alice, the last spring frost (32°F) comes after February 5 in half of years and after March 4 in one year in ten; the first autumn frost comes before December 10 in half of years and before November 16 in one year in ten.
Frost-free in half of yearsFrost in 1 to 9 years out of 10Frost most years
- Last spring frost, half of years after
- February 51 year in 10 after March 4; 9 in 10 after December 30
- First autumn frost, half of years before
- December 101 year in 10 before November 16; 9 in 10 before January 13
NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 312 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 349 days.
A hard freeze (28°F) comes after January 16 in half of springs and before December 27 in half of autumns.
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Alice in zone 9b in ZIP code 78332, the nearest ZIP area. By the map's own method, the average of each year's coldest night over 1991-2020, Alice's NOAA station is in zone 9b: the coldest night of a typical year reaches 28°F (16 complete years).
Frost dates for every NOAA station in Texas · Frost dates by ZIP code
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals (frost probabilities), station USW00012932; USDA 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map, ZIP listings: PRISM Group, Oregon State University, https://prism.oregonstate.edu, accessed October 8, 2026; the station zone: ACIS daily lows, 1991-2020. A 10% date means one year in ten has a frost after it in spring or before it in autumn.
How hot and how cold does it get in Alice?
In a normal year in Alice, 161 days a year reach 90°F (35 of them 100°F or more), 5 nights fall to 32°F or colder and 81 days bring measurable precipitation.
- Days at 90°F or more
- 161a normal year
- Days at 100°F or more
- 35a normal year
- Nights at 32°F or colder
- 5a normal year
- Days that stay below freezing
- fewer than 1high of 32°F or less
- Days with 0.01 inch of precipitation
- 81a normal year
The highest temperature in this station's record (since 1948) is 111°F, on September 5, 2000; the lowest is 15°F, on February 3, 1951.
The wettest calendar year on that record is 2015, with 44.03 in; the snowiest season is 1950–51, with 1.0 inches.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals, station USW00012932; records: ACIS (NOAA Regional Climate Centers), station USW00012932. Records use complete months only; a month missing more than three days is left out.
How humid and windy is Alice, and how clear are its skies?
The summer (June-August) dew point averages 72°F. The muggiest month is June, with an average dew point of 73°F, above the 65°F at which most people call the air sticky; the driest air comes in December (45°F). April is the windiest month (11.4 mph on average), and July has the most clear or nearly clear hours (75%).
| Month | Dew point | Humidity | Afternoon humidity | Wind | Clear or few clouds | Overcast |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 47°F | 67% | 45% | 9.5 mph | 55% | 30% |
| February | 51°F | 67% | 43% | 10.6 mph | 57% | 25% |
| March | 59°F | 69% | 46% | 11.0 mph | 53% | 26% |
| April | 64°F | 69% | 45% | 11.4 mph | 52% | 24% |
| May | 71°F | 74% | 51% | 10.2 mph | 60% | 10% |
| June | 73°F | 73% | 49% | 10.0 mph | 66% | 5% |
| July | 72°F | 69% | 42% | 9.5 mph | 75% | 4% |
| August | 72°F | 71% | 46% | 8.0 mph | 70% | 5% |
| September | 67°F | 71% | 45% | 7.8 mph | 73% | 7% |
| October | 58°F | 69% | 44% | 8.9 mph | 61% | 18% |
| November | 51°F | 69% | 46% | 8.7 mph | 63% | 20% |
| December | 45°F | 69% | 47% | 9.3 mph | – | – |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 hourly normals, station USW00012932. Monthly averages of all hours; afternoon humidity at 3 p.m. local standard time; sky as the share of hours NOAA's observations rate clear or few clouds (a dash where NOAA publishes no sky value).
How sunny is Alice?
Over a year 80% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around Alice, 5.0 kWh per square metre a day. August is the sunniest month (89%) and February the cloudiest (71%).
| Month | Share of clear-sky sunshine | Sunshine, kWh/m² a day |
|---|---|---|
| January | 72% | 3.2 |
| February | 71% | 3.8 |
| March | 73% | 4.7 |
| April | 77% | 5.5 |
| May | 80% | 6.1 |
| June | 86% | 6.8 |
| July | 87% | 6.7 |
| August | 89% | 6.5 |
| September | 81% | 5.3 |
| October | 84% | 4.7 |
| November | 78% | 3.5 |
| December | 71% | 2.9 |
Source: NASA POWER solar climatology, 2001-2020 (CERES SYN1deg). Satellite-based, for the 1-degree cell (about 100 km across) around the station, so it describes the area rather than the airport.
How much heating and cooling does Alice need?
A normal year in Alice brings 885 heating degree days, 84% fewer than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 3,764 cooling degree days, 4.1 times the median (908). No month reaches 300 heating degree days. For gardens and crops, NOAA counts 8,438 growing degree days a year above 50°F.
| Month | Heating | Cooling |
|---|---|---|
| January | 279 | 33 |
| February | 167 | 65 |
| March | 75 | 148 |
| April | 13 | 268 |
| May | 0 | 447 |
| June | 0 | 568 |
| July | 0 | 632 |
| August | 0 | 652 |
| September | 0 | 495 |
| October | 11 | 298 |
| November | 99 | 110 |
| December | 240 | 48 |
| Year (annual) | 885 | 3,764 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USW00012932. A degree day is one degree of a day's mean temperature below 65°F (heating) or above it (cooling); utilities use them to estimate energy use.
Has Alice been warmer than normal lately?
2025 averaged 74.9°F, 2.1°F above the 1991-2020 normal of 72.8°F. 3 of the 3 complete years since 2021 ran warmer than the normal.
| Year | Mean | Against normal | Precip. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 73.7°F | +0.9°F | 34.84 |
| 2024 | 75.7°F | +2.9°F | – |
| 2025 | 74.9°F | +2.1°F | 17.21 |
Source: observed years: ACIS, station USW00012932. A year counts only with all twelve months complete.
How does Alice's climate compare?
Alice is warmer than 299 of the other 320 places with their own NOAA record in Texas, and wetter than 148. Across the 7,247 U.S. stations with normals, its annual mean of 72.8°F is warmer than 97%.
In the Köppen classification computed from these normals, Alice is Cfa: temperate, no dry season, hot summer. What the classes mean.
Places with the most similar year elsewhere
Measured month by month on the normal high, low and precipitation, among places of 20,000 or more people in other states:
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 normals for every station PlainClimate covers. Similarity: the root-mean-square difference of the 36 monthly figures, precipitation weighted so an inch counts like 6°F.
Which places near Alice share this climate record?
10 places have no NOAA station with 1991-2020 normals of their own, and this station is the nearest full record. A place's own climate can differ from these figures, by several degrees where it sits much higher or lower than the station, nearer the coast, or inside a large city's heat; for the larger places the next nearest records are named with their yearly mean, so the spread around them is visible, and places of 50,000 or more have their own page with NOAA's gridded normals.
- San Diego, TX3,620 people · 13 mi W
- Ben Bolt, TX2,391 people · 7 mi SW
- Rancho Alegre, TX1,304 people · 5 mi W
- Alice Acres, TX797 people · 5 mi W
- Agua Dulce, TX666 people · 8 mi E
- Coyote Acres, TX499 people · 7 mi W
- Alfred, TX246 people · 10 mi N
- Amargosa, TX213 people · 12 mi NW
- Owl Ranch, TX113 people · 11 mi N
- Loma Linda East, TX34 people · 11 mi W
Source: Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer (place centers) and Vintage 2024 population estimates. Distance and direction from the station to each place's center.
What do Alice's other NOAA stations record?
One more NOAA station keeps 1991-2020 normals in or near Alice. This page uses Alice International Airport; the other differs by site and elevation:
| Station | From this station | Elevation | Year | Jan low | Jul high | Precip. | Snow | Last frost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alice station USC00410144 | 3 mi W | 201 ft | 74.0°F | 47°F | 97°F | 27.1 | 1 | January 29 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 normals for each station. Last frost: the median last spring date of 32°F.
Questions about Alice's climate
What is the coldest month in Alice?
January, with a normal high of 69°F and a normal low of 45°F. The warmest is August (98°F by day, 74°F at night).
Does it snow in Alice?
Rarely. NOAA publishes no 1991-2020 snowfall normal for Alice's NOAA station; Alice's own co-op station Alice station records 1 inches of snow in a normal year.
What is the rainiest month in Alice?
September, with 4.51 in of precipitation in a normal year; the driest is January with 1.19 in.
What plant hardiness zone is Alice in?
The USDA's 2023 map puts Alice in zone 9b in ZIP code 78332, the nearest ZIP area. By the same method at Alice's NOAA station, the coldest night of a typical year reaches 28°F (16 years, 1991-2020): zone 9b.
How late can frost come in Alice?
In half of years the last 32°F night comes after February 5; in one year in ten it comes after March 4. Waiting until March 4 leaves about a one-in-ten chance of a later frost.
Nearby and next
- Alice in OctoberThis month day by day, its records and recent years
- Texas climateThe statewide normals and every place in the state
- Bishop, TX17 miles from this station, 72.4°F a year
- Kingsville, TX21 miles from this station, 73.3°F a year
- Robstown, TX22 miles from this station, 73.1°F a year
- Mathis, TX22 miles from this station, 71.1°F a year
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