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

What is the weather like in Fort Worth each month?

July is the warmest month, with normal highs of 97°F; January the coldest, with normal lows of 36°F. The most precipitation falls in May (4.10 in), the least in January (1.94 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

NOAA publishes no 1991-2020 snowfall normal for this station. The nearest record that keeps one, Haltom City (10 miles away), gets 2 inches of snow in a normal year; elevation and distance can change that.

When is the best weather to visit Fort Worth?

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 (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.

When is the last frost in Fort Worth?

In Fort Worth, the last spring frost (32°F) comes after March 12 in half of years and after April 3 in one year in ten; the first autumn frost comes before November 17 in half of years and before October 31 in one year in ten.

Last spring frost, half of years after

March 121 year in 10 after April 3; 9 in 10 after February 21

First autumn frost, half of years before

November 171 year in 10 before October 31; 9 in 10 before December 5

NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 249 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 276 days.

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

The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Fort Worth in zone 8b across its 39 ZIP code areas (8b in 76179, the largest). By the map's own method, the average of each year's coldest night over 1991-2020, Fort Worth's NOAA station is in zone 8a: the coldest night of a typical year reaches 14°F (23 complete years); the map interpolates between stations and terrain, so the station and the ZIP area can differ by half a zone.

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

What hardiness zone is each Fort Worth ZIP code in?

The USDA's 2023 map gives each ZIP code area one zone. Fort Worth's 39 ZIP code areas are all in zone 8b. Each ZIP's frost dates are in the frost tool.

How hot and how cold does it get in Fort Worth?

In a normal year in Fort Worth, 108 days a year reach 90°F (28 of them 100°F or more), 45 nights fall to 32°F or colder and 77 days bring measurable precipitation.

Days at 90°F or more

108a normal year

Days at 100°F or more

28a normal year

Nights at 32°F or colder

45a normal year

Days that stay below freezing

2high of 32°F or less

Days with 0.01 inch of precipitation

77a normal year

The highest temperature in this station's record (since 1997) is 112°F, on August 3, 2011; the lowest is −2°F, on February 16, 2021.

The wettest calendar year on that record is 2015, with 56.94 in; the snowiest season is 2010–11, with 6.0 inches.

How humid and windy is Fort Worth, and how clear are its skies?

The summer (June-August) dew point averages 67°F. The muggiest month is June, with an average dew point of 68°F, above the 65°F at which most people call the air sticky; the driest air comes in December (32°F). March is the windiest month (10.6 mph on average), and July has the most clear or nearly clear hours (78%).

How sunny is Fort Worth?

Over a year 80% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around Fort Worth, 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.

How much heating and cooling does Fort Worth need?

A normal year in Fort Worth brings 2,214 heating degree days, 59% fewer than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 2,930 cooling degree days, 3.2 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 6,710 growing degree days a year above 50°F.

Has Fort Worth been warmer than normal lately?

2025 averaged 68.1°F, 1.2°F above the 1991-2020 normal of 66.9°F. 4 of the 5 complete years since 2021 ran warmer than the normal.

Which places near Fort Worth 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.

• Keller, TX46,643 people · 6 mi SE
• Roanoke, TX10,895 people · 6 mi NE
• Northlake, TX10,746 people · 8 mi NE
• Justin, TX6,197 people · 8 mi N
• Haslet, TX4,743 people · 1 mi W
• Westlake, TX2,017 people · 7 mi E
• Rhome, TX1,926 people · 12 mi NW
• New Fairview, TX1,631 people · 12 mi NW
• Aurora, TX1,618 people · 12 mi NW
• Newark, TX1,288 people · 10 mi W

Nearby and next

• Fort Worth in OctoberThis month day by day, its records and recent years
• Texas climateThe statewide normals and every place in the state
• Haltom City, TX10 miles from this station, 65.4°F a year
• Fort Worth Meacham Field, TX11 miles from this station, 65.9°F a year
• Fort Worth Meacham Field Naaf, TX11 miles from this station, 67.5°F a year
• Fort Worth Nature Center, TX12 miles from this station, 66.0°F a year
• Compare two placesMonth by month, side by side

Download these normals (CSV) · JSON · How these figures are made