Gatesville, Texas climate: Normal weather by month, frost dates and records
Gatesville's normal year runs from 36°F January nights to 96°F August afternoons, with 37.0 inches of precipitation and less than an inch of snow (0.2 in) a year. (NOAA 1991-2020 normals)
In metric: a yearly mean of 19.2°C, January lows of 2°C, August highs of 36°C, 940 mm of precipitation a year.
- NOAA stationGatesville
- Station IDUSC00413485
- Location31.41°N 97.70°W
- Elevation826 ft (252 m)
- From the center3 miles
- Population16,388
On October 23, the normal high in Gatesville is 77°F and the normal low 53°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 Gatesville.
- Jan 60° 36°
- Feb 64° 39°
- Mar 71° 47°
- Apr 78° 54°
- May 85° 63°
- Jun 91° 70°
- Jul 95° 72°
- Aug 96° 72°
- Sep 90° 65°
- Oct 80° 55°
- Nov 70° 45°
- Dec 61° 37°
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 Gatesville each month?
August is the warmest month, with normal highs of 96°F; January the coldest, with normal lows of 36°F. The most precipitation falls in October (4.18 in), the least in January (2.32 in).
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Wet days | 90°F days | Freezing nights | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 60°F | 36°F | 48.1°F | 2.32 | 5 | <1 | 13 | 10 h 20 min |
| February | 64°F | 39°F | 51.7°F | 2.54 | 5 | <1 | 9 | 11 h |
| March | 71°F | 47°F | 59.1°F | 3.22 | 6 | <1 | 3 | 12 h |
| April | 78°F | 54°F | 66.1°F | 3.19 | 5 | 2 | <1 | 12 h 50 min |
| May | 85°F | 63°F | 73.9°F | 4.14 | 7 | 7 | <1 | 13 h 40 min |
| June | 91°F | 70°F | 80.4°F | 3.39 | 5 | 21 | <1 | 14 h 10 min |
| July | 95°F | 72°F | 83.6°F | 2.97 | 3 | 29 | <1 | 14 h |
| August | 96°F | 72°F | 84.0°F | 2.97 | 4 | 28 | <1 | 13 h 20 min |
| September | 90°F | 65°F | 77.4°F | 2.94 | 4 | 18 | <1 | 12 h 20 min |
| October | 80°F | 55°F | 67.5°F | 4.18 | 4 | 4 | <1 | 11 h 30 min |
| November | 70°F | 45°F | 57.1°F | 2.63 | 5 | <1 | 6 | 10 h 40 min |
| December | 61°F | 37°F | 48.7°F | 2.53 | 5 | <1 | 12 | 10 h 10 min |
| Year (annual) | 78°F | 55°F | 66.5°F | 37.02 | 58 | 110 | 43 |
The same normals in °C and millimetres
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 16°C | 2°C | 8.9°C | 59 mm |
| February | 18°C | 4°C | 10.9°C | 65 mm |
| March | 22°C | 8°C | 15.1°C | 82 mm |
| April | 26°C | 12°C | 18.9°C | 81 mm |
| May | 29°C | 17°C | 23.3°C | 105 mm |
| June | 33°C | 21°C | 26.9°C | 86 mm |
| July | 35°C | 22°C | 28.7°C | 75 mm |
| August | 36°C | 22°C | 28.9°C | 75 mm |
| September | 32°C | 18°C | 25.2°C | 75 mm |
| October | 27°C | 13°C | 19.7°C | 106 mm |
| November | 21°C | 7°C | 13.9°C | 67 mm |
| December | 16°C | 3°C | 9.3°C | 64 mm |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00413485; 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 Gatesville?
Normal highs sit between 65°F and 85°F in March, April, May, October and November. Of those, October 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 USC00413485.
When is the last frost in Gatesville?
In Gatesville, the last spring frost (32°F) comes after March 19 in half of years and after April 7 in one year in ten; the first autumn frost comes before November 9 in half of years and before October 25 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 191 year in 10 after April 7; 9 in 10 after February 26
- First autumn frost, half of years before
- November 91 year in 10 before October 25; 9 in 10 before November 30
NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 236 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 259 days.
A hard freeze (28°F) comes after March 5 in half of springs and before November 20 in half of autumns.
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Gatesville in zone 8b across its 2 ZIP code areas (8b in 76597, the largest). By the map's own method, the average of each year's coldest night over 1991-2020, Gatesville's NOAA station is in zone 8b: the coldest night of a typical year reaches 15°F (23 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 USC00413485; 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 Gatesville ZIP code in?
The USDA's 2023 map gives each ZIP code area one zone. Gatesville's 2 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 Gatesville?
In a normal year in Gatesville, 110 days a year reach 90°F (22 of them 100°F or more), 43 nights fall to 32°F or colder and 58 days bring measurable precipitation.
- Days at 90°F or more
- 110a normal year
- Days at 100°F or more
- 22a normal year
- Nights at 32°F or colder
- 43a normal year
- Days that stay below freezing
- 1high of 32°F or less
- Days with 0.01 inch of precipitation
- 58a normal year
The highest temperature in this station's record (since 1900) is 112°F, on July 23, 2018; the lowest is −8°F, on February 16, 2021.
The wettest calendar year on that record is 2016, with 50.34 in; the snowiest season is 1939–40, with 9.0 inches.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals, station USC00413485; records: ACIS (NOAA Regional Climate Centers), station USC00413485. Records use complete months only; a month missing more than three days is left out.
How sunny is Gatesville?
Over a year 80% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around Gatesville, 4.8 kWh per square metre a day. July is the sunniest month (88%) and February the cloudiest (70%).
| Month | Share of clear-sky sunshine | Sunshine, kWh/m² a day |
|---|---|---|
| January | 75% | 3.0 |
| February | 70% | 3.5 |
| March | 73% | 4.5 |
| April | 76% | 5.5 |
| May | 76% | 5.9 |
| June | 85% | 6.8 |
| July | 88% | 6.8 |
| August | 88% | 6.3 |
| September | 83% | 5.2 |
| October | 81% | 4.2 |
| November | 77% | 3.2 |
| December | 74% | 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 Gatesville need?
A normal year in Gatesville brings 2,083 heating degree days, 61% fewer than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 2,643 cooling degree days, 2.9 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 6,486 growing degree days a year above 50°F.
| Month | Heating | Cooling |
|---|---|---|
| January | 529 | 3 |
| February | 382 | 10 |
| March | 224 | 41 |
| April | 78 | 111 |
| May | 10 | 286 |
| June | 0 | 462 |
| July | 0 | 577 |
| August | 0 | 587 |
| September | 4 | 376 |
| October | 71 | 149 |
| November | 274 | 35 |
| December | 511 | 6 |
| Year (annual) | 2,083 | 2,643 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00413485. 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 Gatesville been warmer than normal lately?
Over 40 complete years from 1949 to 2020, the station's annual mean temperature rose at a fitted 3.0°F per century (+0.17°C per decade). A fitted rate summarizes the whole record; single years swing well above and below it.
Source: trend: NOAA GHCN-Monthly v4. A year counts only with all twelve months complete.
How does Gatesville's climate compare?
Gatesville is warmer than 188 of the other 320 places with their own NOAA record in Texas, and wetter than 204. Across the 7,247 U.S. stations with normals, its annual mean of 66.5°F is warmer than 91%.
In the Köppen classification computed from these normals, Gatesville 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 Gatesville share this climate record?
4 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.
- Flat, TX489 people · 9 mi SE
- South Mountain, TX410 people · 2 mi NE
- Mound, TX142 people · 6 mi SE
- Mosheim, TX103 people · 16 mi N
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 Gatesville's climate
What is the coldest month in Gatesville?
January, with a normal high of 60°F and a normal low of 36°F. The warmest is August (96°F by day, 72°F at night).
Does it snow in Gatesville?
Rarely: NOAA's normal is 0.2 inch a year.
What is the rainiest month in Gatesville?
October, with 4.18 in of precipitation in a normal year; the driest is January with 2.32 in.
What plant hardiness zone is Gatesville in?
The USDA's 2023 map puts Gatesville in zone 8b across its 2 ZIP code areas (8b in 76597, the largest). By the same method at Gatesville's NOAA station, the coldest night of a typical year reaches 15°F (23 years, 1991-2020): zone 8b.
How late can frost come in Gatesville?
In half of years the last 32°F night comes after March 19; in one year in ten it comes after April 7. Waiting until April 7 leaves about a one-in-ten chance of a later frost.
Nearby and next
- Texas climateThe statewide normals and every place in the state
- McGregor, TX18 miles from this station, 65.4°F a year
- Killeen, TX24 miles from this station, 66.6°F a year
- Evant, TX27 miles from this station, 65.5°F a year
- Stillhouse Hollow Dam, TX28 miles from this station, 66.6°F a year
- Compare two placesMonth by month, side by side
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