Houston-port, TX Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Annual temperature and rainfall from NOAA NCEI's 1991–2020 normals →; comfort score computed by PlainClimate
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Houston-port's primary NOAA station, HOUSTON-PORT.
The climate verdict for Houston-port
Warm-season cooling demand defines Houston-port, Texas, running at more than twice its heating total. The NOAA normal records an annual average of 71°F. It scores 90/100 for climate comfort (excellent), putting it in the top third of station-mapped location scores and exceeding 91% of them.
- 71°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 90/100
- comfort score, above 91% of station-mapped location scores
- 54.1"
- precipitation, annual total
- 326 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Houston-port: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00414326 · Houston-port, TX 71°F mean · 54.1" precip
TEMP-HOT · RANK-WARM · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-WET · SWING-MID · COMF-TOP · LOAD-COOL · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-HOT 71°F
- RANK-WARM #6,587
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Sugar Land
- PRCP-WET 54.1"
- SWING-MID 32°F
- COMF-TOP 90/100
- LOAD-COOL 3,280 CDD
- STN-1 USC00414326
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Sugar Land, TX (+ 0 °F mean)
Instrument codes from this station's NOAA 1991–2020 normals, mean temperature, corpus warmth rank, photo-finish peer station, precipitation band, seasonal swing, comfort composite, degree-day load, and field book, not a livability rating.
Mean-temperature neighbourhood
Nationwide NOAA normal poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every TX station list.
- Houston-port (this station) 71°F
- Cold Lytle, TX 71°F
- Hot El Campo, TX 71°F
- Near Sugar Land, TX 71°F
- Near Houston, TX 71°F
Houston-port sits in Texas, the #4 hottest U.S. state at 66.2°F statewide annual average - see all 50 hottest states ranked by NOAA normals
Climate Living Index · Houston-port
Houston-port: 77/100 · grade B
Houston-port publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Houston-port, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 90/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Frost-free season | 326 days/year | 100/100 · A |
| Annual temperature balance | 70.6°F · 3.1° from 67.5°F | 91/100 · A |
| Snowfall burden | 0.0 inches/year | 90/100 · A |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 104 calendar days | 74/100 · B |
| Precipitation balance | 54.1 in · 19.1 from 35 in | 32/100 · F |
Houston-port · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Houston-port is a temperate Köppen climate: Cfa
Coldest-month mean 53.6°F and warmest-month mean 85.6°F place this station in temperate, no dry season, hot summer climates (Cfa). Class Cfa is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: temperate, specifically temperate, no dry season, hot summer.
- Köppen code
- Cfa
- Group
- Temperate
- Warmest month
- 85.6°F
- Coldest month
- 53.6°F
Source: official public datasets monthly normals (1991–2020) at the city’s primary station. This is a station classification, not a mapped regional consensus.
National standing · cooling-led station
Where Houston-port sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Houston-port's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Top 4% warmest
- Among 6,861 stations, Houston-port sits in the warmer third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Top 12% wettest
- Houston-port's annual total ranks in the wetter third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 88%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Houston-port is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Houston-port compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Houston-port's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
90 Top 9% score exceeds 91% of 6,189 station-mapped location scores
- 0–10: 0 station-mapped locations (0%). Below this entry.
- 10–20: 0 station-mapped locations (0%). Below this entry.
- 20–30: 96 station-mapped locations (2%). Below this entry.
- 30–40: 280 station-mapped locations (5%). Below this entry.
- 40–50: 1,113 station-mapped locations (18%). Below this entry.
- 50–60: 1,329 station-mapped locations (21%). Below this entry.
- 60–70: 1,236 station-mapped locations (20%). Below this entry.
- 70–80: 650 station-mapped locations (11%). Below this entry.
- 80–90: 921 station-mapped locations (15%). Below this entry.
- 90–100: 564 station-mapped locations (9%). This entry sits in this band.
Source NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, PlainClimate comfort index · 1991–2020
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 63°F (17°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 4.0" | 0.0" | 2.2 | 0.0 |
| February | 67°F (19°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 58°F (14°C) | 2.8" | 0.0" | 0.9 | 0.0 |
| March | 73°F (23°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 3.8" | 0.0" | 0.3 | 0.1 |
| April | 79°F (26°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 5.2" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.6 |
| May | 86°F (30°C) | 69°F (20°C) | 77°F (25°C) | 5.1" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 8.5 |
| June | 91°F (33°C) | 75°F (24°C) | 83°F (28°C) | 7.9" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 22.9 |
| July | 93°F (34°C) | 77°F (25°C) | 85°F (29°C) | 4.5" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 26.6 |
| August | 94°F (35°C) | 77°F (25°C) | 86°F (30°C) | 3.4" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 27.2 |
| September | 90°F (32°C) | 72°F (22°C) | 81°F (27°C) | 4.5" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 18.9 |
| October | 82°F (28°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 72°F (22°C) | 5.4" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 3.9 |
| November | 72°F (22°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 62°F (17°C) | 3.4" | 0.0" | 0.3 | 0.1 |
| December | 65°F (18°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 4.3" | 0.0" | 1.1 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
The year in Houston-port runs from a mild 44°F around January 4 to 95°F at the peak near August 11, and the normal low never reaches freezing on any date in the record.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from June 4 through September 15, covering 104 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs March 1 to November 21.
This counts calendar dates whose 1991–2020 normal high reaches 90°F. It is a smaller number than the 90°F+ day counts in the monthly table above, which measure how often the threshold was actually crossed in a typical year. A date can average 88°F and still exceed 90°F in half of all years.
No freezing date
Not one calendar date in the 1991–2020 record carries a normal low at or below 32°F. The coldest normal low of the year is 44°F around January 4.
Where the wet dates fall
The likeliest wet date is August 30, when 26% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is April 29 at 15%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 72 wet dates a year.
The widest day
March 15 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 20°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Houston-port.
Where Houston-port Stands Nationally
Summers here run among the most heat-heavy normals calendars in the country: on about 104 days a year the normal daily high itself reaches 90°F — a count fewer than one station in ten exceeds.
Among the steadiest day-night climates ranked: even the widest normal daily swing holds to roughly 20°F.
Houston-port earns 2 nationally notable standings (outer quintiles) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations; only those extremes render.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
6.4 days with precipitation
5.5 days with precipitation
5.5 days with precipitation
4.5 days with precipitation
5.1 days with precipitation
7.5 days with precipitation
6.9 days with precipitation
7.0 days with precipitation
6.6 days with precipitation
4.7 days with precipitation
5.3 days with precipitation
6.2 days with precipitation
Houston-port spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 29% of the annual total and December through February 21%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Houston-port has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a 32°F seasonal spread.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: June averages 7.9" and February 2.8". The three wettest months together take 34% of the year, against the 25% a perfectly flat distribution would give them.
Shares are computed from this station's own 1991-2020 monthly precipitation normals. "Spread across the year" means neither the June-August nor the December-February share reaches 35%; it describes an average year, not the variability of any single one.
When it rains in Houston-port, it arrives in quantity
54.1" of precipitation falls across only about 71 wet days here, averaging 0.76 inches each. Fewer days carry more water: the year's total is delivered in comparatively heavy events rather than persistent damp.
- Days with measurable precipitation
- about 71 a year, 20% of all days
- Average depth per wet day
- 0.76 inches
- Most wet days
- June, about 8
- Fewest wet days
- April, about 5
A wet day is one recording at least 0.01 inches. These are 1991-2020 normals: they describe an average year, and a per-day average is not a forecast of any individual storm.
Houston-port's record shows no measurable snowfall
This station measured snowfall across the 1991-2020 period and recorded none: the annual normal is 0.0 inches. That is a measured zero rather than missing data, which is a meaningful distinction here , most stations in the database simply do not report snow at all, and those pages say nothing about it.
A thirty-year normal of zero describes the typical year at this station. It is not a claim that snow has never fallen in the area.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
December 25
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
February 2
50% probability date
Growing Season
326 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
1,222
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
3,280
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
August
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside TX closest to Houston-port on two NOAA annual-normal axes (mean temperature and annual precipitation). Chip rows use distinct link sets.
Closest by average temperature
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual mean temperature (71°F here).
- Carefree, AZ 71°F · 0.0°F off
- Tucson, AZ 71°F · 0.0°F off
- New Orleans, LA 71°F · 0.1°F off
- Paauilo, HI 71°F · 0.1°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (54.1" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Fairfield, NC 54.1" · 0.0" off
- Gladeville, TN 54.1" · 0.0" off
- Dickson, TN 54.1" · 0.0" off
- Cullowhee, NC 54.2" · 0.1" off
Data-derived climate profile
How Houston-port's climate pattern fits together
cooling led · wet · mid swing
Air-conditioning demand is the clearest thermal signal here. Houston-port accumulates 3,280 cooling degree days, more than twice its 1,222 heating total; the monthly table shows when that imbalance builds rather than treating it as a year-round condition.
Warm-season demand is paired with a wet annual normal: 54.1 inches of precipitation at Houston-port. Recorded annual snowfall is negligible. The month-by-month bars distinguish a concentrated wet season from moisture spread across the calendar.
August and January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Houston-port's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 32.0°F. The annual average is 71°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
The frost-free window extends for about 326 days. That is a long calendar measure, but it is not a forecast and does not combine heat, rainfall, soil, or local elevation into a planting recommendation.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Houston-port's primary station, so the summer figures are a thirty-year average rather than a ceiling: individual years have run hotter and will again. For Houston-port that means a descriptive range only — not an official NOAA classification and not a prediction for next summer.
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Data Sources
Data source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals v1.0.1 (1991-2020). All figures on this page are from Houston-port's primary station: HOUSTON-PORT (USC00414326). For informational purposes only.
Place identity: U.S. Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer places. The conservative exact name-and-state crosswalk finds no Census place match, so PlainClimate treats this as a station-mapped location and does not claim it is a municipality. No exact Gazetteer row for Houston-port; facility counts that depend on place identity are therefore an upper bound, not a municipal census.
On this page every temperature, precipitation, and derived score for Houston-port comes from its primary NOAA station record. No figure on this page is typed in by an editor - each value is rendered from NOAA 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 1991–2020 normals.