Victoria, Texas climate: Normal weather by month, frost dates and records
Victoria's normal year runs from 44°F January nights to 96°F August afternoons, with 40.4 inches of precipitation a year. (NOAA 1991-2020 normals)
In metric: a yearly mean of 21.5°C, January lows of 6°C, August highs of 35°C, 1,026 mm of precipitation a year.
- NOAA stationVictoria Regional Airport
- Station IDUSW00012912
- Location28.86°N 96.93°W
- Elevation115 ft (35 m)
- From the center4 miles
- Population66,020
On October 14, the normal high in Victoria is 85°F and the normal low 62°F, and the chance of measurable rain or snow is 24%.
Normals describe a typical year at the station, not a forecast. The National Weather Service forecast for Victoria.
- Jan 65° 44°
- Feb 69° 48°
- Mar 75° 54°
- Apr 81° 60°
- May 87° 68°
- Jun 92° 73°
- Jul 95° 75°
- Aug 96° 74°
- Sep 91° 70°
- Oct 84° 61°
- Nov 74° 51°
- Dec 67° 45°
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 Victoria each month?
August is the warmest month, with normal highs of 96°F; January the coldest, with normal lows of 44°F. The most precipitation falls in May (5.23 in), the least in February (1.96 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 | 65°F | 44°F | 54.4°F | 2.67 | 9 | <1 | 3 | 10 h 30 min |
| February | 69°F | 48°F | 58.4°F | 1.96 | 8 | <1 | 2 | 11 h 10 min |
| March | 75°F | 54°F | 64.4°F | 2.99 | 7 | <1 | 1 | 12 h |
| April | 81°F | 60°F | 70.4°F | 3.01 | 7 | 1 | <1 | 12 h 50 min |
| May | 87°F | 68°F | 77.3°F | 5.23 | 7 | 10 | <1 | 13 h 30 min |
| June | 92°F | 73°F | 82.7°F | 4.21 | 9 | 24 | <1 | 14 h |
| July | 95°F | 75°F | 84.5°F | 3.46 | 7 | 28 | <1 | 13 h 50 min |
| August | 96°F | 74°F | 84.8°F | 3.11 | 8 | 29 | <1 | 13 h 10 min |
| September | 91°F | 70°F | 80.4°F | 4.53 | 10 | 20 | <1 | 12 h 20 min |
| October | 84°F | 61°F | 72.6°F | 3.97 | 7 | 7 | <1 | 11 h 30 min |
| November | 74°F | 51°F | 62.8°F | 2.93 | 8 | <1 | 1 | 10 h 40 min |
| December | 67°F | 45°F | 56.2°F | 2.34 | 8 | <1 | 3 | 10 h 20 min |
| Year (annual) | 81°F | 60°F | 70.7°F | 40.41 | 95 | 120 | 9 |
The same normals in °C and millimetres
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 18°C | 6°C | 12.4°C | 68 mm |
| February | 21°C | 9°C | 14.7°C | 50 mm |
| March | 24°C | 12°C | 18.0°C | 76 mm |
| April | 27°C | 16°C | 21.3°C | 76 mm |
| May | 30°C | 20°C | 25.2°C | 133 mm |
| June | 34°C | 23°C | 28.2°C | 107 mm |
| July | 35°C | 24°C | 29.2°C | 88 mm |
| August | 35°C | 23°C | 29.3°C | 79 mm |
| September | 33°C | 21°C | 26.9°C | 115 mm |
| October | 29°C | 16°C | 22.6°C | 101 mm |
| November | 23°C | 11°C | 17.1°C | 74 mm |
| December | 20°C | 7°C | 13.4°C | 59 mm |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USW00012912; 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 Victoria?
Normal highs sit between 65°F and 85°F in January, February, March, April, October, November and December. Of those, April 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 USW00012912.
When is the last frost in Victoria?
In Victoria, the last spring frost (32°F) comes after February 18 in half of years and after March 14 in one year in ten; the first autumn frost comes before December 4 in half of years and before November 16 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
- February 181 year in 10 after March 14; 9 in 10 after January 19
- First autumn frost, half of years before
- December 41 year in 10 before November 16; 9 in 10 before January 4
NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 291 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 330 days.
A hard freeze (28°F) comes after January 25 in half of springs and before December 21 in half of autumns.
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Victoria in zones 9a to 9b across its 2 ZIP code areas (9b in 77901, the largest). By the map's own method, the average of each year's coldest night over 1991-2020, Victoria's NOAA station is in zone 9b: the coldest night of a typical year reaches 25°F (30 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 USW00012912; 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.
What hardiness zone is each Victoria ZIP code in?
The USDA's 2023 map gives each ZIP code area one zone. Victoria's 2 ZIP code areas run from zone 9a to 9b: 1 in 9a and 1 in 9b. Each ZIP's frost dates are in the frost tool.
Source: USDA 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map, ZIP listings: PRISM Group, Oregon State University, https://prism.oregonstate.edu, accessed October 8, 2026; ZIP areas in the place: Census Bureau 2020 ZCTA-to-place relationship file. A ZIP area counts when at least a tenth of its land (and 0.5 km²) lies in the place.
How hot and how cold does it get in Victoria?
In a normal year in Victoria, 120 days a year reach 90°F (10 of them 100°F or more), 9 nights fall to 32°F or colder and 95 days bring measurable precipitation.
- Days at 90°F or more
- 120a normal year
- Days at 100°F or more
- 10a normal year
- Nights at 32°F or colder
- 9a normal year
- Days that stay below freezing
- fewer than 1high of 32°F or less
- Days with 0.01 inch of precipitation
- 95a normal year
The highest temperature in Victoria's official record (kept by the National Weather Service since 1902) is 111°F, on September 5, 2000; the lowest is 9°F, on January 18, 1930.
The wettest calendar year on that record is 2004, with 73.65 in; the snowiest season is 2004–05, with 12.5 inches.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals, station USW00012912; records: ACIS (NOAA Regional Climate Centers), NWS threaded record VCTthr. Records use complete months only; a month missing more than three days is left out.
How humid and windy is Victoria, and how clear are its skies?
The summer (June-August) dew point averages 73°F. The muggiest month is June, with an average dew point of 74°F, above the 65°F at which most people call the air sticky; the driest air comes in December (45°F). April is the windiest month (11.1 mph on average), and July has the most clear or nearly clear hours (76%).
| Month | Dew point | Humidity | Afternoon humidity | Wind | Clear or few clouds | Overcast |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 47°F | 74% | 52% | 9.6 mph | 51% | 40% |
| February | 51°F | 73% | 51% | 10.5 mph | 47% | 39% |
| March | 59°F | 75% | 54% | 10.9 mph | 44% | 37% |
| April | 64°F | 74% | 52% | 11.1 mph | 49% | 29% |
| May | 71°F | 77% | 56% | 9.3 mph | 59% | 11% |
| June | 74°F | 76% | 55% | 8.8 mph | 69% | 6% |
| July | 73°F | 74% | 48% | 7.8 mph | 76% | 3% |
| August | 72°F | 75% | 51% | 7.1 mph | 73% | 5% |
| September | 66°F | 74% | 48% | 7.4 mph | 75% | 8% |
| October | 57°F | 74% | 49% | 8.6 mph | 61% | 22% |
| November | 50°F | 75% | 52% | 8.7 mph | 55% | 30% |
| December | 45°F | 74% | 52% | 9.4 mph | 50% | 39% |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 hourly normals, station USW00012912. Monthly averages of all hours; afternoon humidity at 3 p.m. local standard time; sky as the share of hours NOAA's observations rate clear or few clouds (a dash where NOAA publishes no sky value).
How sunny is Victoria?
Over a year 80% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around Victoria, 4.9 kWh per square metre a day. August is the sunniest month (87%) and February the cloudiest (68%). Among the 459 U.S. places of 50,000 or more, that ranks tied 125th (with 50 others) in sunshine.
| Month | Share of clear-sky sunshine | Sunshine, kWh/m² a day |
|---|---|---|
| January | 70% | 3.0 |
| February | 68% | 3.5 |
| March | 73% | 4.6 |
| April | 76% | 5.5 |
| May | 82% | 6.2 |
| June | 86% | 6.7 |
| July | 86% | 6.5 |
| August | 87% | 6.3 |
| September | 82% | 5.2 |
| October | 84% | 4.6 |
| November | 79% | 3.5 |
| December | 71% | 2.7 |
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 Victoria need?
A normal year in Victoria brings 1,168 heating degree days, 78% fewer than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 3,286 cooling degree days, 3.6 times the median (908). Two months need 300 or more heating degree days, a monthly mean of about 55°F or colder. For gardens and crops, NOAA counts 7,736 growing degree days a year above 50°F.
| Month | Heating | Cooling |
|---|---|---|
| January | 345 | 17 |
| February | 219 | 34 |
| March | 109 | 92 |
| April | 25 | 187 |
| May | 1 | 381 |
| June | 0 | 531 |
| July | 0 | 606 |
| August | 0 | 614 |
| September | 0 | 461 |
| October | 23 | 257 |
| November | 144 | 77 |
| December | 300 | 29 |
| Year (annual) | 1,168 | 3,286 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USW00012912. 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 Victoria been warmer than normal lately?
2025 averaged 72.5°F, 1.8°F above the 1991-2020 normal of 70.7°F. 5 of the 5 complete years since 2021 ran warmer than the normal.
| Year | Mean | Against normal | Precip. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 71.3°F | +0.6°F | 55.66 |
| 2022 | 71.3°F | +0.6°F | 25.02 |
| 2023 | 73.4°F | +2.7°F | 35.10 |
| 2024 | 73.3°F | +2.6°F | 35.89 |
| 2025 | 72.5°F | +1.8°F | 39.27 |
Over 63 complete years from 1955 to 2025, the station's annual mean temperature rose at a fitted 3.2°F per century (+0.18°C per decade). A fitted rate summarizes the whole record; single years swing well above and below it.
Source: observed years: ACIS, station USW00012912; trend: NOAA GHCN-Monthly v4. A year counts only with all twelve months complete.
How does Victoria's climate compare?
Victoria is warmer than 269 of the other 320 places with their own NOAA record in Texas, and wetter than 231. Across the 7,247 U.S. stations with normals, its annual mean of 70.7°F is warmer than 96%.
In the Köppen classification computed from these normals, Victoria 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 Victoria 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.
- Edna, TX6,039 people · 19 mi NE
- Inez, TX2,280 people · 9 mi E
- Bloomington, TX1,409 people · 15 mi S
- Placedo, TX503 people · 13 mi SE
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 Victoria's other NOAA stations record?
2 more NOAA stations keep 1991-2020 normals in or near Victoria. This page uses Victoria Regional Airport; the others differ by site and elevation, and the linked ones have pages of their own:
| Station | From the center | Elevation | Year | Jan low | Jul high | Precip. | Snow | Last frost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Victoria Fire Dept #5 USC00419361 | 3 mi NW | 101 ft | 70.0°F | 42°F | 93°F | 39.4 | 0 | February 14 |
| Victoria Regional Airport USC00419367 | 4 mi E | 104 ft | 71.0°F | 45°F | 94°F | 39.9 | 0 | February 4 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 normals for each station. Last frost: the median last spring date of 32°F.
Questions about Victoria's climate
What is the coldest month in Victoria?
January, with a normal high of 65°F and a normal low of 44°F. The warmest is August (96°F by day, 74°F at night).
Does it snow in Victoria?
Rarely. NOAA publishes no 1991-2020 snowfall normal for Victoria's NOAA station; Victoria's own co-op station Victoria Regional Airport records 0 inches of snow in a normal year.
What is the rainiest month in Victoria?
May, with 5.23 in of precipitation in a normal year; the driest is February with 1.96 in.
What plant hardiness zone is Victoria in?
The USDA's 2023 map puts Victoria in zones 9a to 9b across its 2 ZIP code areas (9b in 77901, the largest). By the same method at Victoria's NOAA station, the coldest night of a typical year reaches 25°F (30 years, 1991-2020): zone 9b.
How late can frost come in Victoria?
In half of years the last 32°F night comes after February 18; in one year in ten it comes after March 14. Waiting until March 14 leaves about a one-in-ten chance of a later frost.
Nearby and next
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- Point Comfort, TX27 miles from this station, 71.3°F a year
- Cuero, TX29 miles from this station, 70.9°F a year
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