Matador, TX Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Pulled from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →: climate measurements used in PlainClimate's documented score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Matador's primary NOAA station, MATADOR.
The climate verdict for Matador
Matador, Texas has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 61°F. It scores 88/100 for climate comfort (excellent), putting it in the top third of station-mapped location scores and exceeding 89% of them.
- 61°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 88/100
- comfort score, above 89% of station-mapped location scores
- 23.0"
- annual precipitation · 7" snow
- 213 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Matador: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00415658 · Matador, TX 61°F mean · 23.0" precip
TEMP-MILD · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-DRY · SWING-MID · COMF-TOP · LOAD-MIX · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-MILD 61°F
- RANK-UPPER #5,283
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Brinkley
- PRCP-DRY 23.0"
- SWING-MID 40°F
- COMF-TOP 88/100
- LOAD-MIX H/C balanced
- STN-1 USC00415658
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Brinkley, AR (+ 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.
- Matador (this station) 61°F
- Hot Hobart, OK 61°F
- Near Brinkley, AR 61°F
- Near Fittstown, OK 61°F
- Near High Point, NC 61°F
Matador 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 · Matador
Matador: 63/100 · grade C
Matador publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Matador, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 88/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Annual temperature balance | 61.0°F · 6.5° from 67.5°F | 80/100 · B |
| Frost-free season | 213 days/year | 74/100 · B |
| Snowfall burden | 6.5 inches/year | 68/100 · C |
| Precipitation balance | 23.0 in · 12.0 from 35 in | 58/100 · C |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 158 calendar days | 41/100 · D |
Matador · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Matador is a temperate Köppen climate: Cfa
Coldest-month mean 41.1°F and warmest-month mean 81.2°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
- 81.2°F
- Coldest month
- 41.1°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 · balanced station
Where Matador sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Matador's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Top 23% warmest
- Among 6,861 stations, Matador sits in the warmer third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- 32nd percentile wetness
- Neither arid nor torrential versus 6,352 station totals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 36th percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Matador compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Matador's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
88 Top 11% score exceeds 89% 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%). This entry sits in this band.
- 90–100: 564 station-mapped locations (9%). Above this entry.
Source NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, PlainClimate comfort index · 1991–2020
Matador's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 51 complete annual observations from 1950 to 2025, MATADOR warmed at a fitted rate of 0.14°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Matador primary station fitted change +0.14 °C/decade
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 54°F (12°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 0.8" | 1.4" | 20.4 | 0.0 |
| February | 58°F (14°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 0.9" | 1.7" | 15.9 | 0.1 |
| March | 66°F (19°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 1.4" | 0.3" | 7.3 | 0.7 |
| April | 74°F (24°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 60°F (16°C) | 2.0" | 0.1" | 1.7 | 3.3 |
| May | 82°F (28°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 69°F (21°C) | 2.8" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 9.4 |
| June | 90°F (32°C) | 65°F (18°C) | 78°F (25°C) | 3.4" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 18.0 |
| July | 93°F (34°C) | 69°F (21°C) | 81°F (27°C) | 2.0" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 25.1 |
| August | 92°F (34°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 80°F (27°C) | 2.7" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 23.1 |
| September | 85°F (29°C) | 60°F (16°C) | 72°F (22°C) | 3.0" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 10.8 |
| October | 75°F (24°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 62°F (17°C) | 1.9" | 0.1" | 1.0 | 2.6 |
| November | 63°F (17°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 1.1" | 0.9" | 7.0 | 0.1 |
| December | 54°F (12°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 42°F (6°C) | 1.0" | 2.0" | 18.2 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Matador works both ends of the calendar. Normal highs climb to 94°F by July 27 and hold at or above 90°F on 76 dates, then normal lows drop to freezing or below on 82 dates, bottoming at 28°F around January 16.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from June 13 through August 27, covering 76 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs March 27 to October 29.
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.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into February 23, then returns to freezing around December 4, covering 82 dates in all.
Derived from the normal daily minimum. This is a different measure from the 50%-probability frost dates shown elsewhere on this page, which come from NOAA’s frost product.
Where the wet dates fall
The likeliest wet date is May 31, when 24% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is January 2 at 10%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 59 wet dates a year.
The widest day
April 4 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 30°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Matador.
Where Matador Stands Nationally
Heat is a defining feature of the normals calendar — the normal daily high reaches 90°F on roughly 76 days a year, more than four out of five ranked stations record.
Matador earns one nationally notable standing (outer quintile) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations, middle-of-the-pack metrics stay silent here.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
Snow: 1.4"
3.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.7"
3.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.3"
4.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.1"
4.6 days with precipitation
6.7 days with precipitation
6.8 days with precipitation
5.1 days with precipitation
6.4 days with precipitation
5.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.1"
4.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.9"
3.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 2.0"
3.3 days with precipitation
Matador runs a summer-peaked wet season
35% of Matador's yearly precipitation falls in June, July and August alone, against the 25% an evenly spread year would give those three months. The wettest month is June at 3.4", on a 40.1°F seasonal spread. Warm-season convection and, across the Southwest, the North American monsoon produce this shape: rain arrives in short heavy bursts during the hottest part of the year rather than as long cool-season soaking.
- Wettest three months: June, September, May, taking 40% of the annual total between them.
- Driest month: January at 0.8".
- Winter share: 12% falls in December, January and February.
Shares are computed from this station's own 1991-2020 monthly precipitation normals. A summer-peaked label means the June-August share reaches 35%; it describes timing across an average year, not any single season, and says nothing about how heavy an individual storm can be.
When it rains in Matador, it arrives in quantity
23.0" of precipitation falls across only about 59 wet days here, averaging 0.39 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 59 a year, 16% of all days
- Average depth per wet day
- 0.39 inches
- Most wet days
- June, about 7
- Fewest wet days
- January, about 3
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.
Snow reaches Matador, but rarely amounts to much
The normals record 6.5 inches of snow a year here, most likely in December. That is a real but marginal amount: enough that snow is part of the local record, not enough to define the winter.
A figure in this range usually reflects a handful of events that melt quickly rather than a season of accumulation; about 4 days a year record any measurable snow at all.
NOAA 1991-2020 normals. An average across thirty years can smooth away a single heavy winter, so a small annual figure does not mean a significant snowfall is impossible.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
November 4
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
April 5
50% probability date
Growing Season
213 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
3,349
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
1,910
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside TX closest to Matador 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 (61°F here).
- Brinkley, AR 61°F · 0.0°F off
- Fittstown, OK 61°F · 0.0°F off
- High Point, NC 61°F · 0.0°F off
- Hobart, OK 61°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (23.0" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Ashland, KS 23.0" · 0.0" off
- Mellette, SD 23.0" · 0.0" off
- Broken Bow, NE 23.0" · 0.1" off
- Meade, KS 23.0" · 0.1" off
Data-derived climate profile
How Matador's climate pattern fits together
mixed demand · moderate · mid swing
July and January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Matador's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 40.1°F. The annual average is 61°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Heating and cooling both register in Matador's normal, at 3,349 and 1,910 degree days respectively. Neither total exceeds the other by more than two to one, so the record is better read as a mixed-demand calendar than as heating-led or cooling-led.
A roughly 213-day frost-free season sits inside this mixed heating-and-cooling profile. Start and end dates matter because both sides of the thermostat register during a normal year.
Matador's 23.0 inches of annual precipitation falls in PlainClimate's middle band, so “wet” or “dry” is not the leading description. Annual snowfall totals 6.5 inches. Temperature balance and the calendar distribution carry more information than the annual moisture label alone.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Matador's primary station, where heating and cooling demand are close enough that neither season sets the character on its own. On a balanced station like Matador, the bands are descriptive ranges rather than an official NOAA classification or a forecast.
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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 Matador's primary station: MATADOR (USC00415658). For informational purposes only.
Place identity: U.S. Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer places. The 2024 Census Gazetteer identifies the exact name-and-state match as an incorporated place (GEOID 4847004). Match rule for Matador: exact normalized name + state only, no fuzzy expansion, so nearby differently spelled facilities stay unmatched.
On this page every temperature, precipitation, and derived score for Matador 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.