Plano, Texas climate: NOAA's gridded normals for the city, beside the nearest station records
NOAA's gridded 1991-2020 normals put Plano's center at January lows of 35°F and July highs of 95°F, a yearly mean of 65.2°F and 40.7 inches of precipitation. No NOAA station keeps a record under the city's name. The nearest station record, Richardson (4 miles S, 678 ft), has January lows of 36°F and July highs of 94°F.
293,286 people (Census Bureau 2024). Distances and directions are from the city's center.
- Jan 55° 35°
- Feb 59° 39°
- Mar 67° 47°
- Apr 75° 54°
- May 82° 63°
- Jun 90° 71°
- Jul 95° 74°
- Aug 95° 74°
- Sep 88° 67°
- Oct 77° 56°
- Nov 66° 45°
- Dec 57° 37°
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 Plano's center.
What is each month like in Plano?
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. | Richardson high | Richardson low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 55°F | 35°F | 45.2°F | 2.56 | 56°F | 36°F |
| February | 59°F | 39°F | 49.3°F | 2.96 | 60°F | 40°F |
| March | 67°F | 47°F | 56.8°F | 3.82 | 69°F | 48°F |
| April | 75°F | 54°F | 64.1°F | 3.60 | 75°F | 55°F |
| May | 82°F | 63°F | 72.3°F | 4.90 | 83°F | 64°F |
| June | 90°F | 71°F | 80.3°F | 3.84 | 90°F | 71°F |
| July | 95°F | 74°F | 84.3°F | 2.24 | 94°F | 75°F |
| August | 95°F | 74°F | 84.3°F | 2.41 | 95°F | 75°F |
| September | 88°F | 67°F | 77.1°F | 3.09 | 87°F | 67°F |
| October | 77°F | 56°F | 66.5°F | 4.91 | 78°F | 56°F |
| November | 66°F | 45°F | 55.4°F | 3.08 | 66°F | 46°F |
| December | 57°F | 37°F | 47.0°F | 3.30 | 57°F | 38°F |
In metric: a yearly mean of 18.4°C, January lows of 2°C, July highs of 35°C and 1,034 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 Plano 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richardson | 4 mi S | 678 ft | 65.8°F | 36°F | 94°F | 41.9 | – | March 7 |
| McKinneyMcKinney Municipal Airport | 13 mi NE | 580 ft | 65.0°F | 34°F | 95°F | 38.3 | – | March 18 |
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 Plano?
NOAA's grid gives no snow, frost dates or records, so these come from the nearest station record, Richardson (4 miles S, 678 ft). NOAA publishes no snowfall normal for it; the nearest record that has one, Dallas Love Field (15 miles away), gets 2 inches a year. The last spring frost (32°F) comes after March 7 in half of years and the first autumn frost before November 21.
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Plano in zone 8b across its 6 ZIP code areas.
Over a year 79% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area (4.7 kWh per square metre a day, NASA POWER 2001-2020); July is the sunniest month (88%) and February the cloudiest (68%).
Richardson'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 Plano; the nearest record's month pages have them.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 normals, station USC00417588; 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 Plano, ZIP code by ZIP code?
6 ZIP code areas lie wholly or partly in Plano. On NOAA's grid 75093 is the warmest (65.6°F a year) and 75025 the coolest (65.1°F), a spread of 0.5°F. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 75023 | 8b | 65.2°F | 35°F | 95°F | 40.7 | Richardson (4 mi) | March 7 | November 21 |
| 75024 | 8b | 65.4°F | 36°F | 95°F | 40.3 | Richardson (7 mi) | March 7 | November 21 |
| 75025 | 8b | 65.1°F | 35°F | 94°F | 40.6 | Richardson (6 mi) | March 7 | November 21 |
| 75074 | 8b | 65.3°F | 35°F | 95°F | 40.5 | Richardson (5 mi) | March 7 | November 21 |
| 75075 | 8b | 65.4°F | 35°F | 95°F | 40.7 | Richardson (2 mi) | March 7 | November 21 |
| 75093 | 8b | 65.6°F | 36°F | 95°F | 40.1 | Richardson (5 mi) | March 7 | November 21 |
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.