Brownfield, Texas climate: Normal weather by month, frost dates and records
Brownfield's normal year runs from 27°F January nights to 94°F July afternoons, with 18.1 inches of precipitation and 5 inches of snow a year. (NOAA 1991-2020 normals)
In metric: a yearly mean of 16.2°C, January lows of −3°C, July highs of 34°C, 458 mm of precipitation a year.
- NOAA stationBrownfield #2
- Station IDUSC00411128
- Location33.19°N 102.27°W
- Elevation3,300 ft (1,006 m)
- Population8,682
On October 23, the normal high in Brownfield is 74°F and the normal low 45°F, and the chance of measurable rain or snow is 15%.
Normals describe a typical year at the station, not a forecast. The National Weather Service forecast for Brownfield.
- Jan 55° 27°
- Feb 60° 30°
- Mar 68° 37°
- Apr 77° 45°
- May 85° 56°
- Jun 92° 65°
- Jul 94° 68°
- Aug 93° 66°
- Sep 85° 59°
- Oct 76° 47°
- Nov 64° 36°
- Dec 56° 28°
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 Brownfield each month?
July is the warmest month, with normal highs of 94°F; January the coldest, with normal lows of 27°F. The most precipitation falls in June (2.67 in), the least in February (0.62 in).
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Snow | Wet days | 90°F days | Freezing nights | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 55°F | 27°F | 40.9°F | 0.69 | 1.4 | 3 | <1 | 25 | 10 h 10 min |
| February | 60°F | 30°F | 44.8°F | 0.62 | 1.2 | 3 | <1 | 18 | 11 h |
| March | 68°F | 37°F | 52.7°F | 1.07 | 0.3 | 4 | <1 | 9 | 12 h |
| April | 77°F | 45°F | 60.6°F | 1.31 | 0.0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 13 h |
| May | 85°F | 56°F | 70.0°F | 2.20 | 0.0 | 6 | 11 | <1 | 13 h 50 min |
| June | 92°F | 65°F | 78.3°F | 2.67 | 0.0 | 7 | 20 | <1 | 14 h 20 min |
| July | 94°F | 68°F | 80.6°F | 1.94 | 0.0 | 5 | 25 | <1 | 14 h 10 min |
| August | 93°F | 66°F | 79.3°F | 1.80 | 0.0 | 6 | 23 | <1 | 13 h 30 min |
| September | 85°F | 59°F | 72.0°F | 2.56 | 0.0 | 6 | 10 | <1 | 12 h 30 min |
| October | 76°F | 47°F | 61.8°F | 1.57 | 0.1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 11 h 20 min |
| November | 64°F | 36°F | 49.9°F | 0.88 | 0.8 | 4 | <1 | 11 | 10 h 30 min |
| December | 56°F | 28°F | 41.9°F | 0.74 | 1.2 | 3 | <1 | 23 | 10 h |
| Year (annual) | 75°F | 47°F | 61.1°F | 18.05 | 5.0 | 56 | 94 | 89 |
The same normals in °C and millimetres
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 13°C | −3°C | 4.9°C | 18 mm | 4 cm |
| February | 16°C | −1°C | 7.1°C | 16 mm | 3 cm |
| March | 20°C | 3°C | 11.5°C | 27 mm | 1 cm |
| April | 25°C | 7°C | 15.9°C | 33 mm | 0 cm |
| May | 29°C | 13°C | 21.1°C | 56 mm | 0 cm |
| June | 33°C | 18°C | 25.7°C | 68 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 34°C | 20°C | 27.0°C | 49 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 34°C | 19°C | 26.3°C | 46 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 30°C | 15°C | 22.2°C | 65 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 25°C | 8°C | 16.6°C | 40 mm | 0 cm |
| November | 18°C | 2°C | 9.9°C | 22 mm | 2 cm |
| December | 13°C | −2°C | 5.5°C | 19 mm | 3 cm |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00411128; 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 Brownfield?
Normal highs sit between 65°F and 85°F in March, April, May and October. Of those, April has the fewest days with rain (4).
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 USC00411128.
When is the last frost in Brownfield?
In Brownfield, the last spring frost (32°F) comes after April 3 in half of years and after April 20 in one year in ten; the first autumn frost comes before November 4 in half of years and before October 22 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
- April 31 year in 10 after April 20; 9 in 10 after March 16
- First autumn frost, half of years before
- November 41 year in 10 before October 22; 9 in 10 before November 17
NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 215 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 238 days.
A hard freeze (28°F) comes after March 20 in half of springs and before November 14 in half of autumns.
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Brownfield in zone 8a in ZIP code 79316, the nearest ZIP area. By the map's own method, the average of each year's coldest night over 1991-2020, Brownfield's NOAA station is in zone 8a: the coldest night of a typical year reaches 11°F (30 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 USC00411128; 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 Brownfield?
In a normal year in Brownfield, 94 days a year reach 90°F (14 of them 100°F or more), 89 nights fall to 32°F or colder and 56 days bring measurable precipitation.
- Days at 90°F or more
- 94a normal year
- Days at 100°F or more
- 14a normal year
- Nights at 32°F or colder
- 89a normal year
- Days that stay below freezing
- 5high of 32°F or less
- Days with 0.01 inch of precipitation
- 56a normal year
- Days with 1 inch of snow or more
- 2a normal year
The highest temperature in this station's record (since 1953) is 111°F, on June 22, 1960; the lowest is −8°F, on January 14, 1963.
The wettest calendar year on that record is 2004, with 37.31 in; the snowiest season is 1972–73, with 22.8 inches.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals, station USC00411128; records: ACIS (NOAA Regional Climate Centers), station USC00411128. Records use complete months only; a month missing more than three days is left out.
How sunny is Brownfield?
Over a year 87% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around Brownfield, 5.5 kWh per square metre a day. June is the sunniest month (91%) and February the cloudiest (82%).
| Month | Share of clear-sky sunshine | Sunshine, kWh/m² a day |
|---|---|---|
| January | 85% | 3.4 |
| February | 82% | 4.3 |
| March | 84% | 5.5 |
| April | 87% | 6.8 |
| May | 86% | 7.3 |
| June | 91% | 7.8 |
| July | 90% | 7.4 |
| August | 90% | 6.8 |
| September | 86% | 5.6 |
| October | 85% | 4.5 |
| November | 85% | 3.6 |
| December | 83% | 3.0 |
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 Brownfield need?
A normal year in Brownfield brings 3,268 heating degree days, 39% fewer than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 1,866 cooling degree days, 2.1 times the median (908). Five months need 300 or more heating degree days, a monthly mean of about 55°F or colder. For gardens and crops, NOAA counts 5,071 growing degree days a year above 50°F.
| Month | Heating | Cooling |
|---|---|---|
| January | 747 | 0 |
| February | 566 | 1 |
| March | 389 | 8 |
| April | 173 | 41 |
| May | 45 | 200 |
| June | 1 | 401 |
| July | 0 | 482 |
| August | 0 | 444 |
| September | 21 | 229 |
| October | 155 | 57 |
| November | 454 | 3 |
| December | 716 | 0 |
| Year (annual) | 3,268 | 1,866 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00411128. 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 Brownfield been warmer than normal lately?
2025 averaged 63.0°F, 1.9°F above the 1991-2020 normal of 61.1°F. 3 of the 5 complete years since 2021 ran warmer than the normal.
| Year | Mean | Against normal | Precip. | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 60.9°F | −0.2°F | 16.57 | 10.0 |
| 2022 | 61.1°F | at normal | 14.42 | 1.5 |
| 2023 | 62.2°F | +1.1°F | 20.57 | 3.0 |
| 2024 | 63.8°F | +2.7°F | 17.95 | 1.5 |
| 2025 | 63.0°F | +1.9°F | 17.95 | 0.4 |
Over 62 complete years from 1956 to 2025, the station's annual mean temperature rose at a fitted 3.5°F per century (+0.19°C per decade). A fitted rate summarizes the whole record; single years swing well above and below it.
Source: observed years: ACIS, station USC00411128; trend: NOAA GHCN-Monthly v4. A year counts only with all twelve months complete.
How does Brownfield's climate compare?
Brownfield is warmer than 42 of the other 320 places with their own NOAA record in Texas, and wetter than 33. Across the 7,247 U.S. stations with normals, its annual mean of 61.1°F is warmer than 77%.
In the Köppen classification computed from these normals, Brownfield is BSk: cold semi-arid steppe. 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 Brownfield share this climate record?
2 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.
- Meadow, TX612 people · 11 mi N
- Wellman, TX228 people · 14 mi SW
Source: Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer (place centers) and Vintage 2024 population estimates. Distance and direction from the station to each place's center.
Questions about Brownfield's climate
What is the coldest month in Brownfield?
January, with a normal high of 55°F and a normal low of 27°F. The warmest is July (94°F by day, 68°F at night).
Does it snow in Brownfield?
Yes: 5 inches in a normal year, falling on 4 days with 0.1 inch or more, the most in January (1.4 inches).
What is the rainiest month in Brownfield?
June, with 2.67 in of precipitation in a normal year; the driest is February with 0.62 in.
What plant hardiness zone is Brownfield in?
The USDA's 2023 map puts Brownfield in zone 8a in ZIP code 79316, the nearest ZIP area. By the same method at Brownfield's NOAA station, the coldest night of a typical year reaches 11°F (30 years, 1991-2020): zone 8a.
How late can frost come in Brownfield?
In half of years the last 32°F night comes after April 3; in one year in ten it comes after April 20. Waiting until April 20 leaves about a one-in-ten chance of a later frost.
Nearby and next
- Texas climateThe statewide normals and every place in the state
- Levelland, TX25 miles from this station, 59.4°F a year
- Tahoka, TX27 miles from this station, 61.8°F a year
- Plains, TX32 miles from this station, 59.5°F a year
- Denver City, TX36 miles from this station, 60.5°F a year
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