Austin, Texas climate: Normal weather by month, frost dates and records

What is the weather like in Austin each month?

August is the warmest month, with normal highs of 98°F; January the coldest, with normal lows of 42°F. The most precipitation falls in May (5.04 in), the least in February (1.89 in).

Each month has its own page with the day-by-day normals, the month's records and its recent years:

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

When is the best weather to visit Austin?

Normal highs sit between 65°F and 85°F in February, March, April, 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.

When is the last frost in Austin?

In Austin, the last spring frost (32°F) comes after February 20 in half of years and after March 14 in one year in ten; the first autumn frost comes before December 3 in half of years and before November 15 in one year in ten.

Last spring frost, half of years after

February 201 year in 10 after March 14; 9 in 10 after January 23

First autumn frost, half of years before

December 31 year in 10 before November 15; 9 in 10 before January 1

NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 291 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 329 days.

A hard freeze (28°F) comes after February 1 in half of springs and before December 27 in half of autumns.

The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Austin in zones 8b to 9a across its 43 ZIP code areas (9a in 78744, the largest). By the map's own method, the average of each year's coldest night over 1991-2020, Austin's NOAA station is in zone 9a: the coldest night of a typical year reaches 24°F (30 complete years).

Frost dates for every NOAA station in Texas · Frost dates by ZIP code

What hardiness zone is each Austin ZIP code in?

The USDA's 2023 map gives each ZIP code area one zone. Austin's 43 ZIP code areas run from zone 8b to 9a: 1 in 8b and 42 in 9a. Each ZIP's frost dates are in the frost tool.

How hot and how cold does it get in Austin?

In a normal year in Austin, 123 days a year reach 90°F (29 of them 100°F or more), 12 nights fall to 32°F or colder and 86 days bring measurable precipitation.

Days at 90°F or more

123a normal year

Days at 100°F or more

29a normal year

Nights at 32°F or colder

12a normal year

Days that stay below freezing

1high of 32°F or less

Days with 0.01 inch of precipitation

86a normal year

The highest temperature in Austin's official record (kept by the National Weather Service since 1897) is 112°F, on August 28, 2011; the lowest is −2°F, on January 31, 1949.

The wettest calendar year on that record is 1919, with 65.31 in; the snowiest season is 1937–38, with 11.0 inches.

How sunny is Austin?

Over a year 79% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around Austin, 4.8 kWh per square metre a day. August is the sunniest month (88%) and February the cloudiest (68%). Among the 459 U.S. places of 50,000 or more, that ranks tied 176th (with 33 others) in sunshine.

How much heating and cooling does Austin need?

A normal year in Austin brings 1,442 heating degree days, 73% fewer than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 3,290 cooling degree days, 3.6 times the median (908). Two months need 300 or more heating degree days, a monthly mean of about 55°F or colder. For gardens and crops, NOAA counts 7,547 growing degree days a year above 50°F.

Has Austin been warmer than normal lately?

2025 averaged 71.9°F, 1.9°F above the 1991-2020 normal of 70.0°F. 5 of the 5 complete years since 2021 ran warmer than the normal.

Over 84 complete years from 1939 to 2025, the station's annual mean temperature rose at a fitted 2.7°F per century (+0.15°C per decade). A fitted rate summarizes the whole record; single years swing well above and below it.

Which places near Austin share this climate record?

11 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.

• Pflugerville, TXalso near: Taylor (15 mi, 67.4°F a year); Elgin (15 mi, 68.0°F a year)66,819 people · 13 mi NE
• Steiner Ranch, TX18,683 people · 9 mi W
• Wells Branch, TX14,156 people · 10 mi NE
• Hornsby Bend, TX12,021 people · 12 mi SE
• Hudson Bend, TX3,902 people · 12 mi NW
• Barton Creek, TX3,281 people · 7 mi W
• West Lake Hills, TX3,208 people · 4 mi SW
• Rollingwood, TX1,438 people · 4 mi SW
• Lost Creek, TX1,150 people · 5 mi W
• Sunset Valley, TX617 people · 7 mi SW
• Volente, TX522 people · 12 mi NW

What do Austin's other NOAA stations record?

3 more NOAA stations keep 1991-2020 normals in or near Austin. This page uses Austin-Camp Mabry; the others differ by site and elevation:

Nearby and next

• Austin in OctoberThis month day by day, its records and recent years
• Texas climateThe statewide normals and every place in the state
• Dripping Springs, TX16 miles from this station, 67.4°F a year
• Elgin, TX24 miles from this station, 68.0°F a year
• Georgetown, TX25 miles from this station, 67.1°F a year
• Cedar Creek, TX27 miles from this station, 67.8°F a year
• Compare two placesMonth by month, side by side

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