Idabel, Oklahoma climate: Normal weather by month, frost dates and records
Idabel's normal year runs from 29°F January nights to 94°F July afternoons, with 54.5 inches of precipitation and 2 inches of snow a year. (NOAA 1991-2020 normals)
In metric: a yearly mean of 16.9°C, January lows of −1°C, July highs of 34°C, 1,385 mm of precipitation a year.
- NOAA stationIdabel
- Station IDUSC00344451
- Location33.93°N 94.83°W
- Elevation365 ft (111 m)
- Population6,983
On October 23, the normal high in Idabel is 74°F and the normal low 46°F, and the chance of measurable rain or snow is 27%.
Normals describe a typical year at the station, not a forecast. The National Weather Service forecast for Idabel.
- Jan 54° 29°
- Feb 59° 34°
- Mar 67° 41°
- Apr 75° 48°
- May 82° 59°
- Jun 89° 66°
- Jul 94° 70°
- Aug 94° 69°
- Sep 87° 61°
- Oct 77° 49°
- Nov 65° 39°
- Dec 57° 32°
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 Idabel each month?
July is the warmest month, with normal highs of 94°F; January the coldest, with normal lows of 29°F. The most precipitation falls in May (6.35 in), the least in August (3.03 in).
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Snow | Wet days | 90°F days | Freezing nights | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 54°F | 29°F | 41.9°F | 3.77 | 0.6 | 9 | <1 | 21 | 10 h 10 min |
| February | 59°F | 34°F | 46.3°F | 4.09 | 0.9 | 9 | <1 | 14 | 11 h |
| March | 67°F | 41°F | 54.1°F | 5.02 | 0.2 | 10 | <1 | 7 | 11 h 50 min |
| April | 75°F | 48°F | 61.4°F | 5.37 | 0.0 | 9 | <1 | 1 | 13 h |
| May | 82°F | 59°F | 70.2°F | 6.35 | 0.0 | 10 | 2 | <1 | 13 h 50 min |
| June | 89°F | 66°F | 77.5°F | 4.12 | 0.0 | 8 | 16 | <1 | 14 h 20 min |
| July | 94°F | 70°F | 81.8°F | 3.61 | 0.0 | 6 | 25 | <1 | 14 h 10 min |
| August | 94°F | 69°F | 81.3°F | 3.03 | 0.0 | 7 | 23 | <1 | 13 h 30 min |
| September | 87°F | 61°F | 74.3°F | 4.31 | 0.0 | 6 | 12 | <1 | 12 h 30 min |
| October | 77°F | 49°F | 63.1°F | 5.18 | 0.0 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 11 h 20 min |
| November | 65°F | 39°F | 52.2°F | 4.68 | 0.0 | 8 | <1 | 9 | 10 h 30 min |
| December | 57°F | 32°F | 44.4°F | 4.98 | 0.3 | 9 | <1 | 17 | 9 h 50 min |
| Year (annual) | 75°F | 50°F | 62.4°F | 54.51 | 2.0 | 97 | 80 | 71 |
The same normals in °C and millimetres
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 12°C | −1°C | 5.5°C | 96 mm | 2 cm |
| February | 15°C | 1°C | 7.9°C | 104 mm | 2 cm |
| March | 20°C | 5°C | 12.3°C | 128 mm | 1 cm |
| April | 24°C | 9°C | 16.3°C | 136 mm | 0 cm |
| May | 28°C | 15°C | 21.2°C | 161 mm | 0 cm |
| June | 32°C | 19°C | 25.3°C | 105 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 34°C | 21°C | 27.7°C | 92 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 34°C | 21°C | 27.4°C | 77 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 31°C | 16°C | 23.5°C | 109 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 25°C | 9°C | 17.3°C | 132 mm | 0 cm |
| November | 19°C | 4°C | 11.2°C | 119 mm | 0 cm |
| December | 14°C | 0°C | 6.9°C | 126 mm | 1 cm |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00344451; 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 Idabel?
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 (8).
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 USC00344451.
When is the last frost in Idabel?
In Idabel, the last spring frost (32°F) comes after March 31 in half of years and after April 18 in one year in ten; the first autumn frost comes before November 3 in half of years and before October 18 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 311 year in 10 after April 18; 9 in 10 after March 9
- First autumn frost, half of years before
- November 31 year in 10 before October 18; 9 in 10 before November 20
NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 221 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 246 days.
A hard freeze (28°F) comes after March 13 in half of springs and before November 13 in half of autumns.
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Idabel in zone 8a in ZIP code 74745, the nearest ZIP area. By the map's own method, the average of each year's coldest night over 1991-2020, Idabel's NOAA station is in zone 8a: the coldest night of a typical year reaches 10°F (17 complete years).
Frost dates for every NOAA station in Oklahoma · Frost dates by ZIP code
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals (frost probabilities), station USC00344451; 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 Idabel?
In a normal year in Idabel, 80 days a year reach 90°F (10 of them 100°F or more), 71 nights fall to 32°F or colder and 97 days bring measurable precipitation.
- Days at 90°F or more
- 80a normal year
- Days at 100°F or more
- 10a normal year
- Nights at 32°F or colder
- 71a normal year
- Days that stay below freezing
- 2high of 32°F or less
- Days with 0.01 inch of precipitation
- 97a normal year
- Days with 1 inch of snow or more
- 1a normal year
The highest temperature in this station's record (since 1907) is 114°F, on August 10, 1936; the lowest is −12°F, on February 16, 2021.
The wettest calendar year on that record is 2015, with 78.14 in; the snowiest season is 1941–42, with 14.9 inches.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals, station USC00344451; records: ACIS (NOAA Regional Climate Centers), station USC00344451. Records use complete months only; a month missing more than three days is left out.
How sunny is Idabel?
Over a year 77% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around Idabel, 4.5 kWh per square metre a day. August is the sunniest month (85%) and February the cloudiest (65%).
| Month | Share of clear-sky sunshine | Sunshine, kWh/m² a day |
|---|---|---|
| January | 71% | 2.7 |
| February | 65% | 3.1 |
| March | 70% | 4.2 |
| April | 74% | 5.3 |
| May | 76% | 5.8 |
| June | 82% | 6.5 |
| July | 84% | 6.4 |
| August | 85% | 6.0 |
| September | 82% | 5.0 |
| October | 79% | 4.0 |
| November | 75% | 2.9 |
| December | 71% | 2.4 |
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 Idabel need?
A normal year in Idabel brings 2,948 heating degree days, 45% fewer than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 2,026 cooling degree days, 2.2 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 5,376 growing degree days a year above 50°F.
| Month | Heating | Cooling |
|---|---|---|
| January | 717 | 1 |
| February | 525 | 3 |
| March | 350 | 12 |
| April | 155 | 49 |
| May | 27 | 190 |
| June | 1 | 377 |
| July | 0 | 521 |
| August | 0 | 504 |
| September | 9 | 287 |
| October | 135 | 74 |
| November | 391 | 8 |
| December | 638 | 1 |
| Year (annual) | 2,948 | 2,026 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00344451. 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 Idabel been warmer than normal lately?
2025 averaged 63.2°F, 0.8°F above the 1991-2020 normal of 62.4°F. 3 of the 3 complete years since 2021 ran warmer than the normal.
| Year | Mean | Against normal | Precip. | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 62.7°F | +0.3°F | 60.24 | 10.0 |
| 2022 | 63.1°F | +0.7°F | 49.44 | 1.4 |
| 2025 | 63.2°F | +0.8°F | 48.23 | 0.0 |
Over 44 complete years from 1927 to 2025, the station's annual mean temperature rose at a fitted 1.4°F per century (+0.08°C per decade). A fitted rate summarizes the whole record; single years swing well above and below it.
Source: observed years: ACIS, station USC00344451; trend: NOAA GHCN-Monthly v4. A year counts only with all twelve months complete.
How does Idabel's climate compare?
Idabel is warmer than 122 of the other 133 places with their own NOAA record in Oklahoma, and wetter than 87. Across the 7,247 U.S. stations with normals, its annual mean of 62.4°F is warmer than 81%.
In the Köppen classification computed from these normals, Idabel 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 Idabel share this climate record?
5 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.
- Valliant, OK805 people · 16 mi W
- Wright City, OK602 people · 14 mi NW
- Millerton, OK213 people · 12 mi W
- Garvin, OK177 people · 6 mi W
- Golden, OK26 people · 8 mi NW
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 Idabel's climate
What is the coldest month in Idabel?
January, with a normal high of 54°F and a normal low of 29°F. The warmest is July (94°F by day, 70°F at night).
Does it snow in Idabel?
Yes: 2 inches in a normal year, falling on 1 days with 0.1 inch or more, the most in February (0.9 inches).
What is the rainiest month in Idabel?
May, with 6.35 in of precipitation in a normal year; the driest is August with 3.03 in.
What plant hardiness zone is Idabel in?
The USDA's 2023 map puts Idabel in zone 8a in ZIP code 74745, the nearest ZIP area. By the same method at Idabel's NOAA station, the coldest night of a typical year reaches 10°F (17 years, 1991-2020): zone 8a.
How late can frost come in Idabel?
In half of years the last 32°F night comes after March 31; in one year in ten it comes after April 18. Waiting until April 18 leaves about a one-in-ten chance of a later frost.
Nearby and next
- Oklahoma climateThe statewide normals and every place in the state
- Broken Bow, OK9 miles from this station, 61.8°F a year
- De Queen, AR25 miles from this station, 63.1°F a year
- Clarksville, TX26 miles from this station, 63.0°F a year
- Dequeen, AR29 miles from this station, 62.0°F a year
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