Waxahachie, Texas climate: Normal weather by month, frost dates and records
Waxahachie's normal year runs from 34°F January nights to 95°F August afternoons, with 40.8 inches of precipitation a year. (NOAA 1991-2020 normals)
In metric: a yearly mean of 18.4°C, January lows of 1°C, August highs of 35°C, 1,036 mm of precipitation a year.
- NOAA stationWaxahachie
- Station IDUSC00419522
- Location32.43°N 96.84°W
- Elevation626 ft (191 m)
- Population48,617
On October 23, the normal high in Waxahachie is 76°F and the normal low 52°F, and the chance of measurable rain or snow is 22%.
Normals describe a typical year at the station, not a forecast. The National Weather Service forecast for Waxahachie.
- Jan 57° 34°
- Feb 60° 38°
- Mar 67° 45°
- Apr 75° 53°
- May 82° 63°
- Jun 90° 71°
- Jul 95° 74°
- Aug 95° 74°
- Sep 88° 67°
- Oct 78° 55°
- Nov 66° 44°
- Dec 58° 36°
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 Waxahachie each month?
August is the warmest month, with normal highs of 95°F; January the coldest, with normal lows of 34°F. The most precipitation falls in October (4.73 in), the least in July (2.48 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 | 57°F | 34°F | 45.2°F | 2.61 | 7 | <1 | 12 | 10 h 10 min |
| February | 60°F | 38°F | 48.8°F | 2.72 | 7 | <1 | 7 | 11 h |
| March | 67°F | 45°F | 56.2°F | 3.99 | 8 | <1 | 2 | 12 h |
| April | 75°F | 53°F | 64.1°F | 3.48 | 6 | 1 | <1 | 13 h |
| May | 82°F | 63°F | 72.6°F | 4.31 | 8 | 5 | <1 | 13 h 50 min |
| June | 90°F | 71°F | 80.6°F | 4.22 | 6 | 20 | <1 | 14 h 20 min |
| July | 95°F | 74°F | 84.3°F | 2.48 | 5 | 28 | <1 | 14 h 10 min |
| August | 95°F | 74°F | 84.5°F | 2.91 | 5 | 27 | <1 | 13 h 20 min |
| September | 88°F | 67°F | 77.6°F | 3.27 | 6 | 14 | <1 | 12 h 20 min |
| October | 78°F | 55°F | 66.7°F | 4.73 | 7 | 2 | <1 | 11 h 30 min |
| November | 66°F | 44°F | 55.3°F | 2.93 | 7 | <1 | 3 | 10 h 30 min |
| December | 58°F | 36°F | 46.9°F | 3.15 | 7 | <1 | 9 | 10 h |
| Year (annual) | 76°F | 54°F | 65.2°F | 40.80 | 78 | 96 | 33 |
The same normals in °C and millimetres
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 14°C | 1°C | 7.3°C | 66 mm |
| February | 16°C | 3°C | 9.3°C | 69 mm |
| March | 20°C | 7°C | 13.4°C | 101 mm |
| April | 24°C | 12°C | 17.8°C | 88 mm |
| May | 28°C | 17°C | 22.6°C | 109 mm |
| June | 32°C | 22°C | 27.0°C | 107 mm |
| July | 35°C | 23°C | 29.1°C | 63 mm |
| August | 35°C | 23°C | 29.2°C | 74 mm |
| September | 31°C | 19°C | 25.3°C | 83 mm |
| October | 26°C | 13°C | 19.3°C | 120 mm |
| November | 19°C | 7°C | 12.9°C | 74 mm |
| December | 14°C | 2°C | 8.3°C | 80 mm |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00419522; 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 Waxahachie?
Normal highs sit between 65°F and 85°F in March, April, May, October and November. Of those, April has the fewest days with rain (6).
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 USC00419522.
When is the last frost in Waxahachie?
In Waxahachie, the last spring frost (32°F) comes after March 16 in half of years and after April 3 in one year in ten; the first autumn frost comes before November 16 in half of years and before October 31 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 161 year in 10 after April 3; 9 in 10 after February 26
- First autumn frost, half of years before
- November 161 year in 10 before October 31; 9 in 10 before December 5
NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 245 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 272 days.
A hard freeze (28°F) comes after March 3 in half of springs and before November 29 in half of autumns.
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Waxahachie in zone 8b across its 2 ZIP code areas (8b in 75165, the largest).
Frost dates for every NOAA station in Texas · Frost dates by ZIP code
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals (frost probabilities), station USC00419522; USDA 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map, ZIP listings: PRISM Group, Oregon State University, https://prism.oregonstate.edu, accessed October 8, 2026. 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 Waxahachie ZIP code in?
The USDA's 2023 map gives each ZIP code area one zone. Waxahachie's 2 ZIP code areas are all in zone 8b. 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 Waxahachie?
In a normal year in Waxahachie, 96 days a year reach 90°F (15 of them 100°F or more), 33 nights fall to 32°F or colder and 78 days bring measurable precipitation.
- Days at 90°F or more
- 96a normal year
- Days at 100°F or more
- 15a normal year
- Nights at 32°F or colder
- 33a normal year
- Days that stay below freezing
- 2high of 32°F or less
- Days with 0.01 inch of precipitation
- 78a normal year
The highest temperature in this station's record (since 1896) is 115°F, on August 18, 1909; the lowest is −4°F, on December 23, 1989.
The wettest calendar year on that record is 1991, with 59.95 in; the snowiest season is 1963–64, with 9.5 inches.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals, station USC00419522; records: ACIS (NOAA Regional Climate Centers), station USC00419522. Records use complete months only; a month missing more than three days is left out.
How sunny is Waxahachie?
Over a year 79% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around Waxahachie, 4.7 kWh per square metre a day. July is the sunniest month (88%) and February the cloudiest (68%).
| Month | Share of clear-sky sunshine | Sunshine, kWh/m² a day |
|---|---|---|
| January | 74% | 2.9 |
| February | 68% | 3.3 |
| March | 72% | 4.4 |
| April | 76% | 5.4 |
| May | 76% | 5.8 |
| June | 84% | 6.7 |
| July | 88% | 6.7 |
| August | 87% | 6.2 |
| September | 84% | 5.2 |
| October | 80% | 4.1 |
| November | 76% | 3.1 |
| December | 73% | 2.6 |
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 Waxahachie need?
A normal year in Waxahachie brings 2,431 heating degree days, 55% fewer than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 2,543 cooling degree days, 2.8 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 6,182 growing degree days a year above 50°F.
| Month | Heating | Cooling |
|---|---|---|
| January | 615 | 1 |
| February | 458 | 3 |
| March | 291 | 17 |
| April | 102 | 74 |
| May | 13 | 248 |
| June | 0 | 468 |
| July | 0 | 598 |
| August | 0 | 604 |
| September | 4 | 382 |
| October | 75 | 126 |
| November | 309 | 18 |
| December | 564 | 3 |
| Year (annual) | 2,431 | 2,543 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00419522. 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.
How does Waxahachie's climate compare?
Waxahachie is warmer than 140 of the other 320 places with their own NOAA record in Texas, and wetter than 234. Across the 7,247 U.S. stations with normals, its annual mean of 65.2°F is warmer than 88%.
In the Köppen classification computed from these normals, Waxahachie 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 Waxahachie share this climate record?
8 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.
- Midlothian, TX44,104 people · 9 mi W
- Glenn Heights, TX19,752 people · 9 mi N
- Red Oak, TX19,365 people · 7 mi NE
- Venus, TX8,209 people · 15 mi W
- Ovilla, TX4,771 people · 8 mi N
- Oak Leaf, TX1,685 people · 7 mi N
- Maypearl, TX971 people · 13 mi SW
- Pecan Hill, TX748 people · 6 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.
Questions about Waxahachie's climate
What is the coldest month in Waxahachie?
January, with a normal high of 57°F and a normal low of 34°F. The warmest is August (95°F by day, 74°F at night).
Does it snow in Waxahachie?
Rarely: NOAA's normal is no measurable snow a year.
What is the rainiest month in Waxahachie?
October, with 4.73 in of precipitation in a normal year; the driest is July with 2.48 in.
What plant hardiness zone is Waxahachie in?
The USDA's 2023 map puts Waxahachie in zone 8b across its 2 ZIP code areas (8b in 75165, the largest).
How late can frost come in Waxahachie?
In half of years the last 32°F night comes after March 16; in one year in ten it comes after April 3. Waiting until April 3 leaves about a one-in-ten chance of a later frost.
Nearby and next
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- Bardwell, TX17 miles from this station, 65.8°F a year
- Grand Prairie, TX17 miles from this station, 65.6°F a year
- Arlington, TX22 miles from this station, 66.8°F a year
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