Laredo, Texas climate: Normal weather by month, frost dates and records
Laredo's normal year runs from 47°F January nights to 101°F August afternoons, with 21.4 inches of precipitation a year. (NOAA 1991-2020 normals)
In metric: a yearly mean of 23.7°C, January lows of 8°C, August highs of 38°C, 542 mm of precipitation a year.
- NOAA stationLaredo International Airport
- Station IDUSW00012907
- Location27.53°N 99.47°W
- Elevation505 ft (154 m)
- From the center2 miles
- Population261,260
On October 22, the normal high in Laredo is 86°F and the normal low 64°F.
Normals describe a typical year at the station, not a forecast. The National Weather Service forecast for Laredo.
- Jan 68° 47°
- Feb 74° 51°
- Mar 81° 58°
- Apr 88° 64°
- May 93° 71°
- Jun 99° 75°
- Jul 100° 76°
- Aug 101° 77°
- Sep 94° 72°
- Oct 87° 65°
- Nov 77° 56°
- Dec 69° 48°
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 Laredo each month?
August is the warmest month, with normal highs of 101°F; January the coldest, with normal lows of 47°F. The most precipitation falls in September (3.64 in), the least in February (0.83 in).
Each month has its own page with the day-by-day normals, the month's records and its recent years:
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Wet days | 90°F days | Freezing nights | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 68°F | 47°F | 57.5°F | 0.90 | – | <1 | 1 | 10 h 30 min |
| February | 74°F | 51°F | 62.5°F | 0.83 | – | 2 | <1 | 11 h 10 min |
| March | 81°F | 58°F | 69.2°F | 1.60 | – | 8 | <1 | 12 h |
| April | 88°F | 64°F | 76.1°F | 1.47 | – | 15 | <1 | 12 h 50 min |
| May | 93°F | 71°F | 82.1°F | 2.76 | – | 24 | <1 | 13 h 30 min |
| June | 99°F | 75°F | 87.0°F | 2.50 | – | 29 | <1 | 13 h 50 min |
| July | 100°F | 76°F | 88.1°F | 2.11 | – | 30 | <1 | 13 h 40 min |
| August | 101°F | 77°F | 88.9°F | 1.68 | – | 31 | <1 | 13 h 10 min |
| September | 94°F | 72°F | 83.0°F | 3.64 | – | 24 | <1 | 12 h 20 min |
| October | 87°F | 65°F | 76.3°F | 1.75 | – | 18 | <1 | 11 h 30 min |
| November | 77°F | 56°F | 66.3°F | 1.04 | – | 3 | <1 | 10 h 50 min |
| December | 69°F | 48°F | 58.6°F | 1.07 | – | <1 | 1 | 10 h 20 min |
| Year (annual) | 86°F | 63°F | 74.6°F | 21.35 | – | 185 | 2 |
The same normals in °C and millimetres
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 20°C | 8°C | 14.2°C | 23 mm |
| February | 24°C | 10°C | 16.9°C | 21 mm |
| March | 27°C | 14°C | 20.7°C | 41 mm |
| April | 31°C | 18°C | 24.5°C | 37 mm |
| May | 34°C | 22°C | 27.8°C | 70 mm |
| June | 37°C | 24°C | 30.6°C | 64 mm |
| July | 38°C | 25°C | 31.2°C | 54 mm |
| August | 38°C | 25°C | 31.6°C | 43 mm |
| September | 34°C | 22°C | 28.3°C | 92 mm |
| October | 31°C | 19°C | 24.6°C | 44 mm |
| November | 25°C | 13°C | 19.1°C | 26 mm |
| December | 21°C | 9°C | 14.8°C | 27 mm |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USW00012907; 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 Laredo?
Normal highs sit between 65°F and 85°F in January, February, March, November and December.
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 USW00012907.
When is the last frost in Laredo?
In Laredo, the last spring frost (32°F) comes after January 20 in half of years and after February 26 in one year in ten; the first autumn frost comes before December 25 in half of years and before December 2 in one year in ten. A night at 32°F or colder comes at all in 74% of years here (NOAA).
Frost-free in half of yearsFrost in 1 to 9 years out of 10Frost most years
- Last spring frost, half of years after
- January 201 year in 10 after February 26; 9 in 10 after December 16
- First autumn frost, half of years before
- December 251 year in 10 before December 2; 9 in 10 before February 3
NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 344 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 365 days.
A hard freeze (28°F) comes after January 6 in half of springs and before December 31 in half of autumns.
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Laredo in zone 9b across its 3 ZIP code areas (9b in 78046, the largest).
Frost dates for every NOAA station in Texas · Frost dates by ZIP code
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals (frost probabilities), station USW00012907; USDA 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map, ZIP listings: PRISM Group, Oregon State University, https://prism.oregonstate.edu, accessed October 8, 2026. 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 Laredo ZIP code in?
The USDA's 2023 map gives each ZIP code area one zone. Laredo's 3 ZIP code areas are all in zone 9b. 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 Laredo?
In a normal year in Laredo, 185 days a year reach 90°F (80 of them 100°F or more) and 2 nights fall to 32°F or colder.
- Days at 90°F or more
- 185a normal year
- Days at 100°F or more
- 80a normal year
- Nights at 32°F or colder
- 2a normal year
- Days that stay below freezing
- fewer than 1high of 32°F or less
The highest temperature in Laredo's official record (kept by the National Weather Service since 1902) is 115°F, on May 7, 1927; the lowest is 11°F, on December 30, 1983.
The wettest calendar year on that record is 1971, with 42.28 in; the snowiest season is 1925–26, with 3.7 inches.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals, station USW00012907; records: ACIS (NOAA Regional Climate Centers), NWS threaded record LRDthr. Records use complete months only; a month missing more than three days is left out.
How sunny is Laredo?
Over a year 82% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around Laredo, 5.1 kWh per square metre a day. August is the sunniest month (91%) and January the cloudiest (73%). Among the 459 U.S. places of 50,000 or more, that ranks tied 99th (with 11 others) in sunshine.
| Month | Share of clear-sky sunshine | Sunshine, kWh/m² a day |
|---|---|---|
| January | 73% | 3.2 |
| February | 74% | 4.0 |
| March | 76% | 4.9 |
| April | 79% | 5.7 |
| May | 81% | 6.2 |
| June | 88% | 7.0 |
| July | 88% | 6.8 |
| August | 91% | 6.7 |
| September | 83% | 5.4 |
| October | 84% | 4.7 |
| November | 78% | 3.6 |
| December | 74% | 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 Laredo need?
A normal year in Laredo brings 811 heating degree days, 85% fewer than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 4,341 cooling degree days, 4.8 times the median (908). No month reaches 300 heating degree days. For gardens and crops, NOAA counts 9,074 growing degree days a year above 50°F.
| Month | Heating | Cooling |
|---|---|---|
| January | 262 | 28 |
| February | 142 | 72 |
| March | 61 | 191 |
| April | 5 | 337 |
| May | 0 | 529 |
| June | 0 | 660 |
| July | 0 | 716 |
| August | 0 | 739 |
| September | 0 | 539 |
| October | 14 | 362 |
| November | 93 | 132 |
| December | 235 | 36 |
| Year (annual) | 811 | 4,341 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USW00012907. 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 Laredo been warmer than normal lately?
2025 averaged 77.5°F, 3.0°F above the 1991-2020 normal of 74.6°F. 5 of the 5 complete years since 2021 ran warmer than the normal.
| Year | Mean | Against normal | Precip. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 76.0°F | +1.4°F | 11.63 |
| 2022 | 75.1°F | +0.5°F | 16.30 |
| 2023 | 77.2°F | +2.6°F | 19.59 |
| 2024 | 77.6°F | +3.0°F | 9.61 |
| 2025 | 77.5°F | +3.0°F | 15.38 |
Source: observed years: ACIS, station USW00012907. A year counts only with all twelve months complete.
How does Laredo's climate compare?
Laredo is warmer than 312 of the other 320 places with their own NOAA record in Texas, and wetter than 68. Across the 7,247 U.S. stations with normals, its annual mean of 74.6°F is warmer than 99%.
In the Köppen classification computed from these normals, Laredo is BSh: hot 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 Laredo share this climate record?
28 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.
- Rio Bravo, TX4,436 people · 12 mi S
- El Cenizo, TX2,433 people · 14 mi S
- Pueblo Nuevo, TX503 people · 10 mi E
- Los Altos, TX470 people · 6 mi SE
- Ranchos Penitas West, TX420 people · 13 mi NW
- Ranchitos Las Lomas, TX333 people · 16 mi NE
- San Carlos II, TX305 people · 7 mi SE
- San Carlos I, TX213 people · 6 mi SE
- La Presa, TX210 people · 10 mi S
- Los Fresnos, TX196 people · 17 mi E
- Tanquecitos South Acres, TX188 people · 6 mi SE
- Tanquecitos South Acres II, TX113 people · 6 mi SE
- Los Veteranos I, TX47 people · 17 mi NE
- Colorado Acres, TX39 people · 17 mi NE
- Los Centenarios, TX38 people · 16 mi E
- Los Arcos, TX27 people · 17 mi E
- Ranchitos East, TX20 people · 7 mi SE
- Hillside Acres, TX7 people · 20 mi NE
- La Coma, TX0 people · 10 mi E
- Laredo Ranchettes, TX0 people · 7 mi SE
- Laredo Ranchettes West, TX0 people · 7 mi SE
- Las Haciendas, TX0 people · 18 mi E
- Las Pilas, TX0 people · 20 mi NE
- Los Corralitos, TX0 people · 9 mi NW
- Los Minerales, TX0 people · 13 mi NW
- Los Nopalitos, TX0 people · 17 mi E
- Pueblo East, TX0 people · 20 mi NE
- Valle Verde, TX0 people · 19 mi NE
Source: Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer (place centers) and Vintage 2024 population estimates. Distance and direction from the station to each place's center.
What do Laredo's other NOAA stations record?
One more NOAA station keeps 1991-2020 normals in or near Laredo. This page uses Laredo International Airport; the other differs by site and elevation:
| Station | From the center | Elevation | Year | Jan low | Jul high | Precip. | Snow | Last frost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laredo 2 USC00415060 | 1 mi NW | 430 ft | 75.0°F | 47°F | 100°F | 19.7 | 0 | January 25 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 normals for each station. Last frost: the median last spring date of 32°F.
Questions about Laredo's climate
What is the coldest month in Laredo?
January, with a normal high of 68°F and a normal low of 47°F. The warmest is August (101°F by day, 77°F at night).
Does it snow in Laredo?
Rarely. NOAA publishes no 1991-2020 snowfall normal for Laredo's NOAA station; Laredo's own co-op station Laredo 2 records 0 inches of snow in a normal year.
What is the rainiest month in Laredo?
September, with 3.64 in of precipitation in a normal year; the driest is February with 0.83 in.
What plant hardiness zone is Laredo in?
The USDA's 2023 map puts Laredo in zone 9b across its 3 ZIP code areas (9b in 78046, the largest).
How late can frost come in Laredo?
In half of years the last 32°F night comes after January 20; in one year in ten it comes after February 26. Waiting until February 26 leaves about a one-in-ten chance of a later frost.
Nearby and next
- Laredo in OctoberThis month day by day, its records and recent years
- Texas climateThe statewide normals and every place in the state
- Encinal, TX31 miles from this station, 71.8°F a year
- Bruni, TX39 miles from this station, 72.5°F a year
- Zapata, TX48 miles from this station, 74.4°F a year
- Hebbronville, TX50 miles from this station, 73.9°F a year
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