Oklahoma City, Oklahoma climate: Normal weather by month, frost dates and records

What is the weather like in Oklahoma City each month?

July is the warmest month, with normal highs of 93°F; January the coldest, with normal lows of 27°F. The most precipitation falls in May (5.31 in), the least in January (1.32 in).

Each month has its own page with the day-by-day normals, the month's records and its recent years:

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When is the best weather to visit Oklahoma City?

Normal highs sit between 65°F and 85°F in April, May, September and October. Of those, September has the fewest days with rain (7).

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.

When is the last frost in Oklahoma City?

In Oklahoma City, the last spring frost (32°F) comes after April 4 in half of years and after April 20 in one year in ten; the first autumn frost comes before November 2 in half of years and before October 21 in one year in ten.

Last spring frost, half of years after

April 41 year in 10 after April 20; 9 in 10 after March 16

First autumn frost, half of years before

November 21 year in 10 before October 21; 9 in 10 before November 17

NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 213 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 234 days.

A hard freeze (28°F) comes after March 21 in half of springs and before November 11 in half of autumns.

The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Oklahoma City in zone 7b across its 53 ZIP code areas (7b in 73099, the largest). By the map's own method, the average of each year's coldest night over 1991-2020, Oklahoma City's NOAA station is in zone 7b: the coldest night of a typical year reaches 8°F (30 complete years).

Frost dates for every NOAA station in Oklahoma · Frost dates by ZIP code

What hardiness zone is each Oklahoma City ZIP code in?

The USDA's 2023 map gives each ZIP code area one zone. Oklahoma City's 53 ZIP code areas are all in zone 7b. Each ZIP's frost dates are in the frost tool.

How hot and how cold does it get in Oklahoma City?

In a normal year in Oklahoma City, 73 days a year reach 90°F (13 of them 100°F or more), 72 nights fall to 32°F or colder and 83 days bring measurable precipitation.

Days at 90°F or more

73a normal year

Days at 100°F or more

13a normal year

Nights at 32°F or colder

72a normal year

Days that stay below freezing

7high of 32°F or less

Days with 0.01 inch of precipitation

83a normal year

Days with 1 inch of snow or more

2a normal year

The highest temperature in Oklahoma City's official record (kept by the National Weather Service since 1890) is 113°F, on August 11, 1936; the lowest is −17°F, on February 12, 1899.

The wettest calendar year on that record is 2007, with 56.95 in; the snowiest season is 1947–48, with 25.2 inches.

How humid and windy is Oklahoma City, and how clear are its skies?

The summer (June-August) dew point averages 66°F. The muggiest month is June, with an average dew point of 67°F, above the 65°F at which most people call the air sticky; the driest air comes in December (27°F). March is the windiest month (13.7 mph on average), and September has the most clear or nearly clear hours (56%).

How sunny is Oklahoma City?

Over a year 80% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around Oklahoma City, 4.7 kWh per square metre a day. July is the sunniest month (88%) and February the cloudiest (73%). Among the 459 U.S. places of 50,000 or more, that ranks tied 125th (with 50 others) in sunshine.

How much heating and cooling does Oklahoma City need?

A normal year in Oklahoma City brings 3,615 heating degree days, 33% fewer than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 1,867 cooling degree days, 2.1 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 4,971 growing degree days a year above 50°F.

Has Oklahoma City been warmer than normal lately?

2025 averaged 61.7°F, 1.6°F above the 1991-2020 normal of 60.1°F. 5 of the 5 complete years since 2021 ran warmer than the normal.

Over 132 complete years from 1891 to 2025, the station's annual mean temperature rose at a fitted 2.0°F per century (+0.11°C per decade). A fitted rate summarizes the whole record; single years swing well above and below it.

Which places near Oklahoma City share this climate record?

4 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.

• Moore, OKalso near: Norman (10 mi, 60.7°F a year); Spencer (17 mi, 60.9°F a year)63,845 people · 8 mi SE
• Mustang, OK23,965 people · 7 mi W
• Tuttle, OK8,584 people · 10 mi SW
• Valley Brook, OK644 people · 7 mi E

What do Oklahoma City's other NOAA stations record?

One more NOAA station keeps 1991-2020 normals in or near Oklahoma City. This page uses Oklahoma City Will Rogers Airport; the other differs by site and elevation, and the linked ones have pages of their own:

Nearby and next

• Oklahoma City in OctoberThis month day by day, its records and recent years
• Oklahoma climateThe statewide normals and every place in the state
• Oklahoma City Post Airport, OK11 miles from this station, 61.4°F a year
• Norman, OK17 miles from this station, 60.7°F a year
• Spencer, OK18 miles from this station, 60.9°F a year
• Blanchard, OK19 miles from this station, 61.4°F a year
• Compare two placesMonth by month, side by side

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