Palestine, Texas climate: Normal weather by month, frost dates and records
Palestine's normal year runs from 35°F January nights to 94°F July afternoons, with 46.8 inches of precipitation and less than an inch of snow (0.1 in) a year. (NOAA 1991-2020 normals)
In metric: a yearly mean of 18.7°C, January lows of 2°C, July highs of 34°C, 1,189 mm of precipitation a year.
- NOAA stationPalestine (2 mi NE)
- Station IDUSW00093914
- Location31.78°N 95.60°W
- Elevation465 ft (142 m)
- Population19,583
On October 23, the normal high in Palestine is 77°F and the normal low 52°F, and the chance of measurable rain or snow is 26%.
Normals describe a typical year at the station, not a forecast. The National Weather Service forecast for Palestine.
- Jan 59° 35°
- Feb 63° 39°
- Mar 70° 45°
- Apr 77° 53°
- May 84° 62°
- Jun 90° 69°
- Jul 94° 72°
- Aug 95° 71°
- Sep 89° 65°
- Oct 80° 54°
- Nov 68° 44°
- Dec 60° 37°
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 Palestine each month?
July is the warmest month, with normal highs of 94°F; January the coldest, with normal lows of 35°F. The most precipitation falls in June (4.50 in), the least in July (2.57 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 | 59°F | 35°F | 47.0°F | 4.05 | 10 | <1 | 13 | 10 h 20 min |
| February | 63°F | 39°F | 50.8°F | 3.87 | 10 | <1 | 8 | 11 h |
| March | 70°F | 45°F | 57.7°F | 4.11 | 10 | <1 | 3 | 12 h |
| April | 77°F | 53°F | 64.7°F | 4.13 | 9 | <1 | <1 | 13 h |
| May | 84°F | 62°F | 72.8°F | 4.32 | 9 | 4 | <1 | 13 h 50 min |
| June | 90°F | 69°F | 79.6°F | 4.50 | 9 | 15 | <1 | 14 h 10 min |
| July | 94°F | 72°F | 83.1°F | 2.57 | 7 | 26 | <1 | 14 h |
| August | 95°F | 71°F | 83.0°F | 3.66 | 6 | 25 | <1 | 13 h 20 min |
| September | 89°F | 65°F | 76.9°F | 3.31 | 8 | 15 | <1 | 12 h 20 min |
| October | 80°F | 54°F | 67.1°F | 4.23 | 7 | 2 | <1 | 11 h 30 min |
| November | 68°F | 44°F | 55.8°F | 3.85 | 9 | <1 | 5 | 10 h 30 min |
| December | 60°F | 37°F | 48.6°F | 4.20 | 10 | <1 | 10 | 10 h 10 min |
| Year (annual) | 77°F | 54°F | 65.6°F | 46.80 | 103 | 87 | 38 |
The same normals in °C and millimetres
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 15°C | 2°C | 8.3°C | 103 mm |
| February | 17°C | 4°C | 10.4°C | 98 mm |
| March | 21°C | 7°C | 14.3°C | 104 mm |
| April | 25°C | 11°C | 18.2°C | 105 mm |
| May | 29°C | 17°C | 22.7°C | 110 mm |
| June | 32°C | 21°C | 26.4°C | 114 mm |
| July | 34°C | 22°C | 28.4°C | 65 mm |
| August | 35°C | 22°C | 28.3°C | 93 mm |
| September | 32°C | 18°C | 24.9°C | 84 mm |
| October | 27°C | 12°C | 19.5°C | 107 mm |
| November | 20°C | 6°C | 13.2°C | 98 mm |
| December | 16°C | 3°C | 9.2°C | 107 mm |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USW00093914; 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 Palestine?
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 (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.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USW00093914.
When is the last frost in Palestine?
In Palestine, the last spring frost (32°F) comes after March 23 in half of years and after April 9 in one year in ten; the first autumn frost comes before November 9 in half of years and before October 28 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 231 year in 10 after April 9; 9 in 10 after March 2
- First autumn frost, half of years before
- November 91 year in 10 before October 28; 9 in 10 before November 29
NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 234 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 258 days.
A hard freeze (28°F) comes after March 9 in half of springs and before November 20 in half of autumns.
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Palestine in zone 8b in ZIP code 75801, the nearest ZIP area. By the map's own method, the average of each year's coldest night over 1991-2020, Palestine's NOAA station is in zone 8b: the coldest night of a typical year reaches 18°F (21 complete years).
Frost dates for every NOAA station in Texas · Frost dates by ZIP code
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals (frost probabilities), station USW00093914; 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 Palestine?
In a normal year in Palestine, 87 days a year reach 90°F (8 of them 100°F or more), 38 nights fall to 32°F or colder and 103 days bring measurable precipitation.
- Days at 90°F or more
- 87a normal year
- Days at 100°F or more
- 8a normal year
- Nights at 32°F or colder
- 38a normal year
- Days that stay below freezing
- 1high of 32°F or less
- Days with 0.01 inch of precipitation
- 103a normal year
The highest temperature in this station's record (since 1984) is 109°F, on September 4, 2000; the lowest is −1°F, on December 23, 1989.
The wettest calendar year on that record is 1991, with 72.16 in; the snowiest season is 1987–88, with 2.7 inches.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals, station USW00093914; records: ACIS (NOAA Regional Climate Centers), station USW00093914. Records use complete months only; a month missing more than three days is left out.
How sunny is Palestine?
Over a year 78% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around Palestine, 4.7 kWh per square metre a day. August is the sunniest month (86%) and February the cloudiest (65%).
| Month | Share of clear-sky sunshine | Sunshine, kWh/m² a day |
|---|---|---|
| January | 71% | 2.8 |
| February | 65% | 3.2 |
| March | 70% | 4.3 |
| April | 75% | 5.4 |
| May | 77% | 5.9 |
| June | 82% | 6.5 |
| July | 85% | 6.5 |
| August | 86% | 6.1 |
| September | 82% | 5.1 |
| October | 80% | 4.2 |
| November | 75% | 3.1 |
| December | 70% | 2.5 |
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 Palestine need?
A normal year in Palestine brings 2,229 heating degree days, 59% fewer than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 2,478 cooling degree days, 2.7 times the median (908). Four months need 300 or more heating degree days, a monthly mean of about 55°F or colder. For gardens and crops, NOAA counts 6,242 growing degree days a year above 50°F.
| Month | Heating | Cooling |
|---|---|---|
| January | 561 | 5 |
| February | 408 | 11 |
| March | 255 | 29 |
| April | 98 | 89 |
| May | 14 | 257 |
| June | 0 | 438 |
| July | 0 | 561 |
| August | 0 | 558 |
| September | 3 | 360 |
| October | 74 | 137 |
| November | 300 | 26 |
| December | 516 | 8 |
| Year (annual) | 2,229 | 2,478 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USW00093914. 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 Palestine been warmer than normal lately?
2022 averaged 65.2°F, 0.4°F below the 1991-2020 normal of 65.6°F.
| Year | Mean | Against normal | Precip. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 65.2°F | −0.4°F | 33.22 |
Over 58 complete years from 1930 to 2017, the station's annual mean temperature rose at a fitted 0.4°F per century (+0.02°C per decade). A fitted rate summarizes the whole record; single years swing well above and below it.
Source: observed years: ACIS, station USW00093914; trend: NOAA GHCN-Monthly v4. A year counts only with all twelve months complete.
How does Palestine's climate compare?
Palestine is warmer than 157 of the other 320 places with their own NOAA record in Texas, and wetter than 261. Across the 7,247 U.S. stations with normals, its annual mean of 65.6°F is warmer than 89%.
In the Köppen classification computed from these normals, Palestine 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 Palestine share this climate record?
3 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.
- Elkhart, TX1,266 people · 11 mi S
- Oakwood, TX405 people · 20 mi SW
- Neches, TX214 people · 9 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 Palestine's other NOAA stations record?
One more NOAA station keeps 1991-2020 normals in or near Palestine. This page uses Palestine (2 mi NE); the other differs by site and elevation:
| Station | From this station | Elevation | Year | Jan low | Jul high | Precip. | Snow | Last frost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palestine (6 mi WNW) USW00053968 | 7 mi W | 383 ft | 66.7°F | 38°F | 94°F | 43.7 | – | March 12 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 normals for each station. Last frost: the median last spring date of 32°F.
Questions about Palestine's climate
What is the coldest month in Palestine?
January, with a normal high of 59°F and a normal low of 35°F. The warmest is July (94°F by day, 72°F at night).
Does it snow in Palestine?
Rarely: NOAA's normal is 0.1 inch a year.
What is the rainiest month in Palestine?
June, with 4.50 in of precipitation in a normal year; the driest is July with 2.57 in.
What plant hardiness zone is Palestine in?
The USDA's 2023 map puts Palestine in zone 8b in ZIP code 75801, the nearest ZIP area. By the same method at Palestine's NOAA station, the coldest night of a typical year reaches 18°F (21 years, 1991-2020): zone 8b.
How late can frost come in Palestine?
In half of years the last 32°F night comes after March 23; in one year in ten it comes after April 9. Waiting until April 9 leaves about a one-in-ten chance of a later frost.
Nearby and next
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- Jacksonville, TX23 miles from this station, 65.0°F a year
- Rusk, TX27 miles from this station, 64.9°F a year
- Athens, TX29 miles from this station, 65.5°F a year
- Crockett, TX34 miles from this station, 66.2°F a year
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