Arlington, Texas climate: Normal weather by month, frost dates and records
Arlington's normal year runs from 37°F January nights to 96°F August afternoons, with 36.2 inches of precipitation a year. (NOAA 1991-2020 normals)
In metric: a yearly mean of 19.3°C, January lows of 3°C, August highs of 36°C, 919 mm of precipitation a year.
- NOAA stationArlington Municipal Airport
- Station IDUSW00053907
- Location32.66°N 97.09°W
- Elevation630 ft (192 m)
- From the center3 miles
- Population403,672
On October 8, the normal high in Arlington is 82°F and the normal low 60°F, and the chance of measurable rain or snow is 23%.
Normals describe a typical year at the station, not a forecast. The National Weather Service forecast for Arlington.
- Jan 58° 37°
- Feb 62° 40°
- Mar 70° 48°
- Apr 77° 55°
- May 84° 64°
- Jun 92° 72°
- Jul 96° 75°
- Aug 96° 75°
- Sep 89° 68°
- Oct 79° 57°
- Nov 67° 46°
- Dec 59° 39°
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 Arlington each month?
August is the warmest month, with normal highs of 96°F; January the coldest, with normal lows of 37°F. The most precipitation falls in October (4.72 in), the least in August (1.68 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 | 58°F | 37°F | 47.3°F | 2.34 | 6 | <1 | 12 | 10 h 10 min |
| February | 62°F | 40°F | 51.1°F | 2.63 | 7 | <1 | 7 | 11 h |
| March | 70°F | 48°F | 58.8°F | 3.37 | 8 | <1 | 2 | 12 h |
| April | 77°F | 55°F | 65.9°F | 3.13 | 7 | 1 | <1 | 13 h |
| May | 84°F | 64°F | 74.0°F | 4.33 | 9 | 7 | <1 | 13 h 50 min |
| June | 92°F | 72°F | 81.9°F | 3.54 | 7 | 22 | <1 | 14 h 20 min |
| July | 96°F | 75°F | 85.4°F | 1.70 | 4 | 28 | <1 | 14 h 10 min |
| August | 96°F | 75°F | 85.5°F | 1.68 | 5 | 27 | <1 | 13 h 20 min |
| September | 89°F | 68°F | 78.5°F | 3.32 | 5 | 17 | <1 | 12 h 30 min |
| October | 79°F | 57°F | 67.8°F | 4.72 | 8 | 4 | <1 | 11 h 30 min |
| November | 67°F | 46°F | 56.8°F | 2.62 | 7 | <1 | 3 | 10 h 30 min |
| December | 59°F | 39°F | 48.8°F | 2.81 | 7 | <1 | 11 | 10 h |
| Year (annual) | 77°F | 56°F | 66.8°F | 36.19 | 80 | 106 | 36 |
The same normals in °C and millimetres
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 14°C | 3°C | 8.5°C | 59 mm |
| February | 17°C | 5°C | 10.6°C | 67 mm |
| March | 21°C | 9°C | 14.9°C | 86 mm |
| April | 25°C | 13°C | 18.8°C | 80 mm |
| May | 29°C | 18°C | 23.3°C | 110 mm |
| June | 33°C | 22°C | 27.7°C | 90 mm |
| July | 36°C | 24°C | 29.7°C | 43 mm |
| August | 36°C | 24°C | 29.7°C | 43 mm |
| September | 32°C | 20°C | 25.8°C | 84 mm |
| October | 26°C | 14°C | 19.9°C | 120 mm |
| November | 20°C | 8°C | 13.8°C | 67 mm |
| December | 15°C | 4°C | 9.3°C | 71 mm |
NOAA publishes no 1991-2020 snowfall normal for this station. Arlington's own co-op station Arlington Six Flags does: 1 inches of snow in a normal year (see the other stations below).
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USW00053907; 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 Arlington?
Normal highs sit between 65°F and 85°F in March, April, May, October and November. Of those, November has the fewest days with rain (7).
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 USW00053907.
When is the last frost in Arlington?
In Arlington, the last spring frost (32°F) comes after March 9 in half of years and after March 28 in one year in ten; the first autumn frost comes before November 21 in half of years and before November 3 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
- March 91 year in 10 after March 28; 9 in 10 after February 18
- First autumn frost, half of years before
- November 211 year in 10 before November 3; 9 in 10 before December 7
NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 256 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 285 days.
A hard freeze (28°F) comes after February 25 in half of springs and before December 4 in half of autumns.
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Arlington in zone 8b across its 13 ZIP code areas (8b in 76001, the largest). By the map's own method, the average of each year's coldest night over 1991-2020, Arlington's NOAA station is in zone 8b: the coldest night of a typical year reaches 17°F (22 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 USW00053907; 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.
What hardiness zone is each Arlington ZIP code in?
The USDA's 2023 map gives each ZIP code area one zone. Arlington's 13 ZIP code areas are all in zone 8b. Each ZIP's frost dates are in the frost tool.
Source: USDA 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map, ZIP listings: PRISM Group, Oregon State University, https://prism.oregonstate.edu, accessed October 8, 2026; ZIP areas in the place: Census Bureau 2020 ZCTA-to-place relationship file. A ZIP area counts when at least a tenth of its land (and 0.5 km²) lies in the place.
How hot and how cold does it get in Arlington?
In a normal year in Arlington, 106 days a year reach 90°F (22 of them 100°F or more), 36 nights fall to 32°F or colder and 80 days bring measurable precipitation.
- Days at 90°F or more
- 106a normal year
- Days at 100°F or more
- 22a normal year
- Nights at 32°F or colder
- 36a normal year
- Days that stay below freezing
- 1high of 32°F or less
- Days with 0.01 inch of precipitation
- 80a normal year
The highest temperature in this station's record (since 1997) is 110°F, on July 22, 2018; the lowest is −1°F, on February 16, 2021.
The wettest calendar year on that record is 2015, with 63.25 in.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals, station USW00053907; records: ACIS (NOAA Regional Climate Centers), station USW00053907. Records use complete months only; a month missing more than three days is left out.
How sunny is Arlington?
Over a year 80% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around Arlington, 4.8 kWh per square metre a day. July is the sunniest month (88%) and February the cloudiest (71%). Among the 459 U.S. places of 50,000 or more, that ranks tied 125th (with 50 others) in sunshine.
| Month | Share of clear-sky sunshine | Sunshine, kWh/m² a day |
|---|---|---|
| January | 76% | 3.0 |
| February | 71% | 3.5 |
| March | 74% | 4.6 |
| April | 76% | 5.6 |
| May | 77% | 6.0 |
| June | 85% | 6.8 |
| July | 88% | 6.9 |
| August | 87% | 6.3 |
| September | 84% | 5.2 |
| October | 81% | 4.2 |
| November | 78% | 3.2 |
| December | 75% | 2.7 |
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 Arlington need?
A normal year in Arlington brings 2,126 heating degree days, 60% fewer than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 2,824 cooling degree days, 3.1 times the median (908). Three months need 300 or more heating degree days, a monthly mean of about 55°F or colder. For gardens and crops, NOAA counts 6,643 growing degree days a year above 50°F.
| Month | Heating | Cooling |
|---|---|---|
| January | 553 | 3 |
| February | 399 | 10 |
| March | 233 | 41 |
| April | 79 | 108 |
| May | 9 | 288 |
| June | 0 | 507 |
| July | 0 | 634 |
| August | 0 | 634 |
| September | 2 | 409 |
| October | 69 | 156 |
| November | 275 | 29 |
| December | 507 | 6 |
| Year (annual) | 2,126 | 2,824 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USW00053907. 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 Arlington been warmer than normal lately?
2025 averaged 68.3°F, 1.5°F above the 1991-2020 normal of 66.8°F. 5 of the 5 complete years since 2021 ran warmer than the normal.
| Year | Mean | Against normal | Precip. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 68.9°F | +2.1°F | 29.60 |
| 2022 | 67.4°F | +0.6°F | 28.74 |
| 2023 | 69.0°F | +2.2°F | 30.94 |
| 2024 | 69.3°F | +2.5°F | 34.30 |
| 2025 | 68.3°F | +1.5°F | – |
Source: observed years: ACIS, station USW00053907. A year counts only with all twelve months complete.
How does Arlington's climate compare?
Arlington is warmer than 197 of the other 320 places with their own NOAA record in Texas, and wetter than 197. Across the 7,247 U.S. stations with normals, its annual mean of 66.8°F is warmer than 92%.
In the Köppen classification computed from these normals, Arlington 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 Arlington share this climate record?
5 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.
- Mansfield, TXalso near: Grand Prairie (10 mi, 65.6°F a year); Arlington Six Flags (13 mi, 65.1°F a year)80,803 people · 7 mi S
- Forest Hill, TX14,314 people · 10 mi W
- Kennedale, TX10,771 people · 7 mi W
- Pantego, TX2,495 people · 5 mi NW
- Dalworthington Gardens, TX2,299 people · 4 mi NW
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 Arlington's other NOAA stations record?
One more NOAA station keeps 1991-2020 normals in or near Arlington. This page uses Arlington Municipal Airport; the other differs by site and elevation, and the linked ones have pages of their own:
| Station | From the center | Elevation | Year | Jan low | Jul high | Precip. | Snow | Last frost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arlington Six Flags USC00410337 | 5 mi NE | 536 ft | 65.1°F | 34°F | 94°F | 40.1 | 1 | March 9 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 normals for each station. Last frost: the median last spring date of 32°F.
Questions about Arlington's climate
What is the coldest month in Arlington?
January, with a normal high of 58°F and a normal low of 37°F. The warmest is August (96°F by day, 75°F at night).
Does it snow in Arlington?
Rarely. NOAA publishes no 1991-2020 snowfall normal for Arlington's NOAA station; Arlington's own co-op station Arlington Six Flags records 1 inches of snow in a normal year.
What is the rainiest month in Arlington?
October, with 4.72 in of precipitation in a normal year; the driest is August with 1.68 in.
What plant hardiness zone is Arlington in?
The USDA's 2023 map puts Arlington in zone 8b across its 13 ZIP code areas (8b in 76001, the largest). By the same method at Arlington's NOAA station, the coldest night of a typical year reaches 17°F (22 years, 1991-2020): zone 8b.
How late can frost come in Arlington?
In half of years the last 32°F night comes after March 9; in one year in ten it comes after March 28. Waiting until March 28 leaves about a one-in-ten chance of a later frost.
Nearby and next
- Arlington in OctoberThis month day by day, its records and recent years
- Texas climateThe statewide normals and every place in the state
- Arlington Six Flags, TX7 miles from this station, 65.1°F a year
- Grand Prairie, TX7 miles from this station, 65.6°F a year
- Haltom City, TX17 miles from this station, 65.4°F a year
- Dallas, TX17 miles from this station, 66.6°F a year
- Compare two placesMonth by month, side by side
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