Spur, Texas climate: Normal weather by month, frost dates and records
Spur's normal year runs from 27°F January nights to 95°F July afternoons, with 22.5 inches of precipitation and 3 inches of snow a year. (NOAA 1991-2020 normals)
In metric: a yearly mean of 16.3°C, January lows of −3°C, July highs of 35°C, 571 mm of precipitation a year.
- NOAA stationSpur
- Station IDUSC00418566
- Location33.48°N 100.88°W
- Elevation2,297 ft (700 m)
- Population843
On October 23, the normal high in Spur is 75°F and the normal low 45°F, and the chance of measurable rain or snow is 14%.
Normals describe a typical year at the station, not a forecast. The National Weather Service forecast for Spur.
- Jan 56° 27°
- Feb 60° 29°
- Mar 68° 37°
- Apr 77° 45°
- May 84° 56°
- Jun 92° 65°
- Jul 95° 68°
- Aug 94° 67°
- Sep 86° 59°
- Oct 77° 47°
- Nov 65° 36°
- Dec 56° 28°
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 Spur each month?
July is the warmest month, with normal highs of 95°F; January the coldest, with normal lows of 27°F. The most precipitation falls in June (3.31 in), the least in January (0.74 in).
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Snow | Wet days | 90°F days | Freezing nights | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 56°F | 27°F | 41.0°F | 0.74 | 0.4 | 2 | <1 | 25 | 10 h 10 min |
| February | 60°F | 29°F | 44.5°F | 0.84 | 1.3 | 3 | <1 | 18 | 11 h |
| March | 68°F | 37°F | 52.5°F | 1.31 | 0.0 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 12 h |
| April | 77°F | 45°F | 60.7°F | 1.93 | 0.1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 13 h |
| May | 84°F | 56°F | 70.1°F | 2.77 | 0.0 | 6 | 11 | <1 | 13 h 50 min |
| June | 92°F | 65°F | 78.2°F | 3.31 | 0.0 | 6 | 20 | <1 | 14 h 20 min |
| July | 95°F | 68°F | 81.5°F | 2.36 | 0.0 | 5 | 26 | <1 | 14 h 10 min |
| August | 94°F | 67°F | 80.6°F | 2.39 | 0.0 | 5 | 25 | <1 | 13 h 30 min |
| September | 86°F | 59°F | 72.7°F | 2.46 | 0.0 | 6 | 12 | <1 | 12 h 30 min |
| October | 77°F | 47°F | 62.1°F | 2.10 | 0.0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 11 h 20 min |
| November | 65°F | 36°F | 50.4°F | 1.21 | 0.4 | 3 | <1 | 11 | 10 h 30 min |
| December | 56°F | 28°F | 42.0°F | 1.07 | 0.7 | 3 | <1 | 23 | 10 h |
| Year (annual) | 76°F | 47°F | 61.4°F | 22.49 | 2.9 | 51 | 101 | 89 |
The same normals in °C and millimetres
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 13°C | −3°C | 5.0°C | 19 mm | 1 cm |
| February | 15°C | −1°C | 6.9°C | 21 mm | 3 cm |
| March | 20°C | 3°C | 11.4°C | 33 mm | 0 cm |
| April | 25°C | 7°C | 15.9°C | 49 mm | 0 cm |
| May | 29°C | 13°C | 21.2°C | 70 mm | 0 cm |
| June | 33°C | 18°C | 25.7°C | 84 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 35°C | 20°C | 27.5°C | 60 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 35°C | 19°C | 27.0°C | 61 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 30°C | 15°C | 22.6°C | 62 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 25°C | 9°C | 16.7°C | 53 mm | 0 cm |
| November | 18°C | 2°C | 10.2°C | 31 mm | 1 cm |
| December | 13°C | −2°C | 5.6°C | 27 mm | 2 cm |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00418566; 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 Spur?
Normal highs sit between 65°F and 85°F in March, April, May, October and November. Of those, November has the fewest days with rain (3).
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 USC00418566.
When is the last frost in Spur?
In Spur, the last spring frost (32°F) comes after April 6 in half of years and after April 24 in one year in ten; the first autumn frost comes before November 4 in half of years and before October 20 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
- April 61 year in 10 after April 24; 9 in 10 after March 18
- First autumn frost, half of years before
- November 41 year in 10 before October 20; 9 in 10 before November 18
NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 209 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 231 days.
A hard freeze (28°F) comes after March 25 in half of springs and before November 12 in half of autumns.
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Spur in zone 8a in ZIP code 79370, the nearest ZIP area. By the map's own method, the average of each year's coldest night over 1991-2020, Spur's NOAA station is in zone 7b: the coldest night of a typical year reaches 9°F (26 complete years); the map interpolates between stations and terrain, so the station and the ZIP area can differ by half a zone.
Frost dates for every NOAA station in Texas · Frost dates by ZIP code
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals (frost probabilities), station USC00418566; 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 Spur?
In a normal year in Spur, 101 days a year reach 90°F (23 of them 100°F or more), 89 nights fall to 32°F or colder and 51 days bring measurable precipitation.
- Days at 90°F or more
- 101a normal year
- Days at 100°F or more
- 23a normal year
- Nights at 32°F or colder
- 89a normal year
- Days that stay below freezing
- 5high of 32°F or less
- Days with 0.01 inch of precipitation
- 51a normal year
- Days with 1 inch of snow or more
- 1a normal year
The highest temperature in this station's record (since 1911) is 117°F, on June 28, 1994; the lowest is −17°F, on February 8, 1933.
The wettest calendar year on that record is 2004, with 44.67 in; the snowiest season is 1918–19, with 18.6 inches.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals, station USC00418566; records: ACIS (NOAA Regional Climate Centers), station USC00418566. Records use complete months only; a month missing more than three days is left out.
How sunny is Spur?
Over a year 84% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around Spur, 5.2 kWh per square metre a day. June is the sunniest month (89%) and February the cloudiest (79%).
| Month | Share of clear-sky sunshine | Sunshine, kWh/m² a day |
|---|---|---|
| January | 82% | 3.3 |
| February | 79% | 4.0 |
| March | 81% | 5.2 |
| April | 83% | 6.3 |
| May | 83% | 6.8 |
| June | 89% | 7.4 |
| July | 88% | 7.1 |
| August | 88% | 6.5 |
| September | 84% | 5.3 |
| October | 84% | 4.4 |
| November | 83% | 3.4 |
| December | 80% | 2.9 |
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 Spur need?
A normal year in Spur brings 3,266 heating degree days, 39% fewer than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 1,972 cooling degree days, 2.2 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 5,201 growing degree days a year above 50°F.
| Month | Heating | Cooling |
|---|---|---|
| January | 742 | 0 |
| February | 577 | 1 |
| March | 397 | 11 |
| April | 179 | 49 |
| May | 42 | 202 |
| June | 1 | 399 |
| July | 0 | 510 |
| August | 0 | 484 |
| September | 20 | 249 |
| October | 153 | 63 |
| November | 441 | 5 |
| December | 713 | 0 |
| Year (annual) | 3,266 | 1,972 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00418566. 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 Spur been warmer than normal lately?
2025 averaged 63.3°F, 1.9°F above the 1991-2020 normal of 61.4°F. 5 of the 5 complete years since 2021 ran warmer than the normal.
| Year | Mean | Against normal | Precip. | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 61.9°F | +0.5°F | 23.95 | 8.0 |
| 2022 | 62.8°F | +1.4°F | 15.22 | 2.6 |
| 2023 | 63.6°F | +2.2°F | 25.65 | 1.7 |
| 2024 | 64.3°F | +2.9°F | 23.63 | 0.0 |
| 2025 | 63.3°F | +1.9°F | 20.45 | 0.2 |
Over 41 complete years from 1951 to 2025, the station's annual mean temperature rose at a fitted 0.8°F per century (+0.05°C per decade). A fitted rate summarizes the whole record; single years swing well above and below it.
Source: observed years: ACIS, station USC00418566; trend: NOAA GHCN-Monthly v4. A year counts only with all twelve months complete.
How does Spur's climate compare?
Spur is warmer than 43 of the other 320 places with their own NOAA record in Texas, and wetter than 82. Across the 7,247 U.S. stations with normals, its annual mean of 61.4°F is warmer than 78%.
In the Köppen classification computed from these normals, Spur 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 Spur share this climate record?
Dickens has no NOAA station with 1991-2020 normals of its 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.
- Dickens, TX209 people · 10 mi N
Source: Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer (place centers) and Vintage 2024 population estimates. Distance and direction from the station to each place's center.
Questions about Spur's climate
What is the coldest month in Spur?
January, with a normal high of 56°F and a normal low of 27°F. The warmest is July (95°F by day, 68°F at night).
Does it snow in Spur?
Yes: 3 inches in a normal year, falling on 2 days with 0.1 inch or more, the most in February (1.3 inches).
What is the rainiest month in Spur?
June, with 3.31 in of precipitation in a normal year; the driest is January with 0.74 in.
What plant hardiness zone is Spur in?
The USDA's 2023 map puts Spur in zone 8a in ZIP code 79370, the nearest ZIP area. By the same method at Spur's NOAA station, the coldest night of a typical year reaches 9°F (26 years, 1991-2020): zone 7b.
How late can frost come in Spur?
In half of years the last 32°F night comes after April 6; in one year in ten it comes after April 24. Waiting until April 24 leaves about a one-in-ten chance of a later frost.
Nearby and next
- Texas climateThe statewide normals and every place in the state
- White River Reservoir, TX12 miles from this station, 62.2°F a year
- Jayton, TX24 miles from this station, 63.1°F a year
- Crosbyton, TX24 miles from this station, 60.5°F a year
- Lake Alan Henry, TX30 miles from this station, 63.4°F a year
- Compare two placesMonth by month, side by side
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