Temple, Texas climate: NOAA's gridded normals for the city, beside the nearest station records
NOAA's gridded 1991-2020 normals put Temple's center at January lows of 37°F and July highs of 96°F, a yearly mean of 67.0°F and 36.0 inches of precipitation. No NOAA station keeps a record under the city's name. The nearest station record, Stillhouse Hollow Dam (10 miles SW, 706 ft), has January lows of 36°F and July highs of 95°F.
96,267 people (Census Bureau 2024). Distances and directions are from the city's center.
- Jan 60° 37°
- Feb 64° 41°
- Mar 71° 48°
- Apr 78° 55°
- May 85° 63°
- Jun 92° 70°
- Jul 96° 73°
- Aug 96° 73°
- Sep 90° 66°
- Oct 81° 56°
- Nov 69° 46°
- Dec 61° 38°
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 Temple's center.
What is each month like in Temple?
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. | Stillhouse Hollow Dam high | Stillhouse Hollow Dam low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 60°F | 37°F | 48.2°F | 2.64 | 60°F | 36°F |
| February | 64°F | 41°F | 52.2°F | 2.29 | 64°F | 39°F |
| March | 71°F | 48°F | 59.2°F | 3.10 | 71°F | 46°F |
| April | 78°F | 55°F | 66.2°F | 2.91 | 78°F | 54°F |
| May | 85°F | 63°F | 74.1°F | 4.78 | 85°F | 63°F |
| June | 92°F | 70°F | 80.8°F | 3.32 | 91°F | 70°F |
| July | 96°F | 73°F | 84.3°F | 1.82 | 95°F | 72°F |
| August | 96°F | 73°F | 84.5°F | 2.53 | 96°F | 72°F |
| September | 90°F | 66°F | 78.3°F | 3.23 | 90°F | 66°F |
| October | 81°F | 56°F | 68.4°F | 3.93 | 81°F | 56°F |
| November | 69°F | 46°F | 57.7°F | 2.67 | 69°F | 46°F |
| December | 61°F | 38°F | 49.8°F | 2.77 | 61°F | 38°F |
In metric: a yearly mean of 19.4°C, January lows of 3°C, July highs of 35°C and 914 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 Temple 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stillhouse Hollow Dam | 10 mi SW | 706 ft | 66.6°F | 36°F | 95°F | 37.0 | 0 | March 14 |
| Killeen | 18 mi W | 815 ft | 66.6°F | 36°F | 96°F | 34.8 | 0 | March 14 |
| McGregor | 23 mi N | 723 ft | 65.4°F | 34°F | 95°F | 38.1 | 0 | March 15 |
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 Temple?
NOAA's grid gives no snow, frost dates or records, so these come from the nearest station record, Stillhouse Hollow Dam (10 miles SW, 706 ft). It gets 0 inches of snow in a normal year. The last spring frost (32°F) comes after March 14 in half of years and the first autumn frost before November 20.
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Temple in zones 8b to 9a across its 3 ZIP code areas.
Over a year 80% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area (4.8 kWh per square metre a day, NASA POWER 2001-2020); July is the sunniest month (88%) and February the cloudiest (70%).
Stillhouse Hollow Dam'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 Temple; the nearest record's month pages have them.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 normals, station USC00418646; 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 Temple, ZIP code by ZIP code?
3 ZIP code areas lie wholly or partly in Temple. On NOAA's grid 76501 is the warmest (67.0°F a year) and 76504 the coolest (66.8°F), so the city is nearly uniform. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 76501 | 9a | 67.0°F | 37°F | 96°F | 36.5 | Stillhouse Hollow Dam (17 mi) | March 14 | November 20 |
| 76502 | 8b | 67.0°F | 37°F | 96°F | 36.0 | Stillhouse Hollow Dam (8 mi) | March 14 | November 20 |
| 76504 | 8b | 66.8°F | 37°F | 95°F | 36.8 | Stillhouse Hollow Dam (12 mi) | March 14 | November 20 |
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.