Little Elm, Texas climate: NOAA's gridded normals for the city, beside the nearest station records
NOAA's gridded 1991-2020 normals put Little Elm's center at January lows of 34°F and July highs of 95°F, a yearly mean of 65.3°F and 39.0 inches of precipitation. No NOAA station keeps a record under the city's name. The nearest station record, Pilot Point (13 miles NW, 690 ft), has January lows of 33°F and July highs of 95°F.
61,219 people (Census Bureau 2024). Distances and directions are from the city's center.
- Jan 55° 34°
- Feb 60° 38°
- Mar 68° 46°
- Apr 75° 53°
- May 83° 62°
- Jun 91° 71°
- Jul 95° 75°
- Aug 96° 74°
- Sep 88° 66°
- Oct 78° 55°
- Nov 66° 44°
- Dec 57° 36°
Each month: normal high (large) and low, °F. Fill: the month's normal mean, colder blue to hotter red.
The months above are NOAA's gridded normals at Little Elm's center.
What is each month like in Little Elm?
NOAA's grid estimates the normals every 5 km or so from the stations around each point, terrain included. It smooths between stations, so night lows at the heart of a large city can run warmer than the grid shows: at five big-city airports we compared, the grid's highs were within about 1°F of the station and its lows 1-6°F cooler. The nearest record's high and low are beside each month.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Pilot Point high | Pilot Point low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 55°F | 34°F | 44.8°F | 2.22 | 55°F | 33°F |
| February | 60°F | 38°F | 49.1°F | 2.71 | 59°F | 36°F |
| March | 68°F | 46°F | 56.8°F | 3.69 | 69°F | 43°F |
| April | 75°F | 53°F | 64.3°F | 3.51 | 75°F | 52°F |
| May | 83°F | 62°F | 72.5°F | 4.76 | 83°F | 60°F |
| June | 91°F | 71°F | 80.8°F | 3.98 | 91°F | 70°F |
| July | 95°F | 75°F | 85.0°F | 2.26 | 95°F | 74°F |
| August | 96°F | 74°F | 84.9°F | 2.47 | 97°F | 74°F |
| September | 88°F | 66°F | 77.3°F | 2.93 | 88°F | 66°F |
| October | 78°F | 55°F | 66.5°F | 4.54 | 78°F | 55°F |
| November | 66°F | 44°F | 55.3°F | 2.94 | 67°F | 43°F |
| December | 57°F | 36°F | 46.7°F | 2.97 | 57°F | 35°F |
In metric: a yearly mean of 18.5°C, January lows of 1°C, July highs of 35°C and 991 mm of precipitation a year.
Source: NOAA NCEI U.S. Monthly Gridded Climate Normals 1991-2020 (nClimGrid, accession 0245564); NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 station normals. The grid cell holding the city's Census center point.
What do the station records around Little Elm say?
Each row is a NOAA station's own 1991-2020 normals, with the snow and frost dates the grid does not give. A record downhill or nearer the coast than the city can run warmer, one uphill cooler: compare the elevations.
| Record | Where | Elevation | Year | Jan low | Jul high | Precip. | Snow | Last frost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pilot PointPilot Point Island Du Boi | 13 mi NW | 690 ft | 64.8°F | 33°F | 95°F | – | – | March 24 |
| DentonDenton Municipal Airport | 16 mi W | 642 ft | 64.5°F | 32°F | 96°F | 35.6 | – | March 24 |
| Richardson | 17 mi SE | 678 ft | 65.8°F | 36°F | 94°F | 41.9 | – | March 7 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals; place center and population: Census Bureau 2024. Last frost: the median last spring date of 32°F.
How much snow, how late a frost, what zone and how much sun in Little Elm?
NOAA's grid gives no snow, frost dates or records, so these come from the nearest station record, Pilot Point (13 miles NW, 690 ft). NOAA publishes no snowfall normal for it; the nearest record that has one, Grapevine (18 miles away), gets 0 inches a year. The last spring frost (32°F) comes after March 24 in half of years and the first autumn frost before November 16. Its record high is 112°F (2000) and its record low −2°F (1989) (kept since 1960).
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Little Elm in zone 8b (ZIP code 75068).
Over a year 81% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area (4.8 kWh per square metre a day, NASA POWER 2001-2020); July is the sunniest month (88%) and February the cloudiest (72%).
Pilot Point's page has its months, frost probabilities, records by month and recent years. NOAA's grid has monthly figures only, so there are no day-by-day month pages for Little Elm; the nearest record's month pages have them.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 normals, station USC00417028; records: ACIS; USDA 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map, ZIP listings: PRISM Group, Oregon State University, https://prism.oregonstate.edu, accessed October 8, 2026; sunshine: NASA POWER.
How does the climate vary across Little Elm, ZIP code by ZIP code?
One ZIP code area lies wholly or partly in Little Elm. Each row also names the nearest station record and its frost dates.
| ZIP code | Zone | Year | Jan low | Jul high | Precip. | Nearest record | Last frost | First frost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 75068 | 8b | 65.3°F | 34°F | 95°F | 39.0 | Pilot Point (13 mi) | March 24 | November 16 |
Source: Census Bureau 2020 ZCTA-to-place relationship file and ZCTA centers; NOAA NCEI gridded and station normals, 1991-2020. A ZIP area counts when at least a tenth of its land (and 0.5 km²) is in the city; its figures are the grid cell at its center; frost dates are the nearest record's medians of 32°F.