Wichita Falls, Texas climate: Normal weather by month, frost dates and records
Wichita Falls's normal year runs from 30°F January nights to 97°F July afternoons, with 27.9 inches of precipitation and 3 inches of snow a year. (NOAA 1991-2020 normals)
In metric: a yearly mean of 17.6°C, January lows of −1°C, July highs of 36°C, 708 mm of precipitation a year.
- NOAA stationWichita Falls Municipal Airport
- Station IDUSW00013966
- Location33.98°N 98.49°W
- Elevation1,017 ft (310 m)
- From the center5 miles
- Population102,372
On October 14, the normal high in Wichita Falls is 78°F and the normal low 53°F, and the chance of measurable rain or snow is 21%.
Normals describe a typical year at the station, not a forecast. The National Weather Service forecast for Wichita Falls.
- Jan 55° 30°
- Feb 59° 34°
- Mar 68° 42°
- Apr 76° 50°
- May 84° 60°
- Jun 92° 68°
- Jul 97° 72°
- Aug 97° 72°
- Sep 88° 64°
- Oct 77° 52°
- Nov 65° 40°
- Dec 56° 32°
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 Wichita Falls each month?
July is the warmest month, with normal highs of 97°F; January the coldest, with normal lows of 30°F. The most precipitation falls in May (3.81 in), the least in January (1.20 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. | Snow | Wet days | 90°F days | Freezing nights | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 55°F | 30°F | 42.4°F | 1.20 | 0.7 | 5 | <1 | 18 | 10 h 10 min |
| February | 59°F | 34°F | 46.3°F | 1.40 | 1.1 | 5 | <1 | 12 | 11 h |
| March | 68°F | 42°F | 54.7°F | 2.02 | 0.2 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 11 h 50 min |
| April | 76°F | 50°F | 62.8°F | 2.50 | 0.0 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 13 h |
| May | 84°F | 60°F | 71.8°F | 3.81 | 0.0 | 9 | 9 | <1 | 13 h 50 min |
| June | 92°F | 68°F | 80.1°F | 3.35 | 0.0 | 7 | 21 | <1 | 14 h 20 min |
| July | 97°F | 72°F | 84.7°F | 2.02 | 0.0 | 5 | 28 | <1 | 14 h 10 min |
| August | 97°F | 72°F | 84.1°F | 2.53 | 0.0 | 6 | 27 | <1 | 13 h 30 min |
| September | 88°F | 64°F | 76.0°F | 2.99 | 0.0 | 6 | 15 | <1 | 12 h 30 min |
| October | 77°F | 52°F | 64.6°F | 2.88 | 0.0 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 11 h 20 min |
| November | 65°F | 40°F | 52.7°F | 1.63 | 0.3 | 5 | <1 | 6 | 10 h 30 min |
| December | 56°F | 32°F | 43.7°F | 1.56 | 0.8 | 5 | <1 | 16 | 10 h |
| Year (annual) | 76°F | 51°F | 63.7°F | 27.89 | 3.1 | 73 | 105 | 59 |
The same normals in °C and millimetres
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 13°C | −1°C | 5.8°C | 30 mm | 2 cm |
| February | 15°C | 1°C | 7.9°C | 36 mm | 3 cm |
| March | 20°C | 5°C | 12.6°C | 51 mm | 1 cm |
| April | 24°C | 10°C | 17.1°C | 64 mm | 0 cm |
| May | 29°C | 15°C | 22.1°C | 97 mm | 0 cm |
| June | 33°C | 20°C | 26.7°C | 85 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 36°C | 22°C | 29.3°C | 51 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 36°C | 22°C | 28.9°C | 64 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 31°C | 18°C | 24.4°C | 76 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 25°C | 11°C | 18.1°C | 73 mm | 0 cm |
| November | 18°C | 5°C | 11.5°C | 41 mm | 1 cm |
| December | 13°C | 0°C | 6.5°C | 40 mm | 2 cm |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USW00013966; 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 Wichita Falls?
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 (5).
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 USW00013966.
When is the last frost in Wichita Falls?
In Wichita Falls, the last spring frost (32°F) comes after March 26 in half of years and after April 14 in one year in ten; the first autumn frost comes before November 9 in half of years and before October 25 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 261 year in 10 after April 14; 9 in 10 after March 8
- First autumn frost, half of years before
- November 91 year in 10 before October 25; 9 in 10 before November 24
NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 228 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 250 days.
A hard freeze (28°F) comes after March 12 in half of springs and before November 18 in half of autumns.
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Wichita Falls in zone 8a across its 6 ZIP code areas (8a in 76306, the largest). By the map's own method, the average of each year's coldest night over 1991-2020, Wichita Falls's NOAA station is in zone 8a: the coldest night of a typical year reaches 12°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 USW00013966; 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 Wichita Falls ZIP code in?
The USDA's 2023 map gives each ZIP code area one zone. Wichita Falls's 6 ZIP code areas are all in zone 8a. 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 Wichita Falls?
In a normal year in Wichita Falls, 105 days a year reach 90°F (30 of them 100°F or more), 59 nights fall to 32°F or colder and 73 days bring measurable precipitation.
- Days at 90°F or more
- 105a normal year
- Days at 100°F or more
- 30a normal year
- Nights at 32°F or colder
- 59a normal year
- Days that stay below freezing
- 4high of 32°F or less
- Days with 0.01 inch of precipitation
- 73a normal year
- Days with 1 inch of snow or more
- 1a normal year
The highest temperature in Wichita Falls's official record (kept by the National Weather Service since 1908) is 117°F, on June 28, 1980; the lowest is −12°F, on January 4, 1947.
The wettest calendar year on that record is 2015, with 47.38 in; the snowiest season is 1904–05, with 20.0 inches.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals, station USW00013966; records: ACIS (NOAA Regional Climate Centers), NWS threaded record SPSthr. Records use complete months only; a month missing more than three days is left out.
How humid and windy is Wichita Falls, and how clear are its skies?
The summer (June-August) dew point averages 65°F. The muggiest month is June, with an average dew point of 66°F, above the 65°F at which most people call the air sticky; the driest air comes in December (29°F). March is the windiest month (12.9 mph on average), and September has the most clear or nearly clear hours (71%).
| Month | Dew point | Humidity | Afternoon humidity | Wind | Clear or few clouds | Overcast |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 30°F | 60% | 39% | 10.7 mph | 58% | 23% |
| February | 34°F | 57% | 37% | 12.0 mph | 55% | 23% |
| March | 44°F | 58% | 38% | 12.9 mph | 56% | 20% |
| April | 52°F | 61% | 41% | 12.4 mph | 57% | 18% |
| May | 63°F | 64% | 45% | 11.4 mph | 56% | 12% |
| June | 66°F | 59% | 40% | 11.3 mph | 67% | 6% |
| July | 65°F | 53% | 34% | 10.0 mph | 67% | 5% |
| August | 64°F | 57% | 37% | 9.4 mph | 67% | 7% |
| September | 55°F | 59% | 38% | 10.0 mph | 71% | 9% |
| October | 44°F | 63% | 40% | 11.1 mph | 63% | 16% |
| November | 34°F | 61% | 39% | 11.2 mph | 65% | 17% |
| December | 29°F | 63% | 42% | 10.7 mph | 65% | 21% |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 hourly normals, station USW00013966. 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 Wichita Falls?
Over a year 82% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around Wichita Falls, 5.0 kWh per square metre a day. July is the sunniest month (88%) and February the cloudiest (74%). Among the 459 U.S. places of 50,000 or more, that ranks tied 99th (with 11 others) in sunshine.
| Month | Share of clear-sky sunshine | Sunshine, kWh/m² a day |
|---|---|---|
| January | 79% | 3.1 |
| February | 74% | 3.7 |
| March | 77% | 4.8 |
| April | 80% | 5.9 |
| May | 80% | 6.3 |
| June | 87% | 7.1 |
| July | 88% | 7.0 |
| August | 87% | 6.3 |
| September | 84% | 5.3 |
| October | 82% | 4.2 |
| November | 81% | 3.3 |
| December | 77% | 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 Wichita Falls need?
A normal year in Wichita Falls brings 2,897 heating degree days, 46% fewer than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 2,445 cooling degree days, 2.7 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 5,873 growing degree days a year above 50°F.
| Month | Heating | Cooling |
|---|---|---|
| January | 703 | 1 |
| February | 527 | 3 |
| March | 339 | 21 |
| April | 137 | 71 |
| May | 25 | 236 |
| June | 0 | 455 |
| July | 0 | 611 |
| August | 0 | 590 |
| September | 10 | 341 |
| October | 117 | 104 |
| November | 381 | 12 |
| December | 659 | 1 |
| Year (annual) | 2,897 | 2,445 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USW00013966. 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 Wichita Falls been warmer than normal lately?
2025 averaged 65.0°F, 1.3°F above the 1991-2020 normal of 63.7°F. 5 of the 5 complete years since 2021 ran warmer than the normal.
| Year | Mean | Against normal | Precip. | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 63.9°F | +0.2°F | 25.82 | 13.8 |
| 2022 | 65.1°F | +1.4°F | 19.37 | 4.4 |
| 2023 | 66.3°F | +2.6°F | 21.77 | 2.0 |
| 2024 | 66.9°F | +3.2°F | 34.93 | 0.0 |
| 2025 | 65.0°F | +1.3°F | 34.33 | 2.0 |
Over 95 complete years from 1924 to 2025, the station's annual mean temperature rose at a fitted 2.0°F per century (+0.11°C per decade). A fitted rate summarizes the whole record; single years swing well above and below it.
Source: observed years: ACIS, station USW00013966; trend: NOAA GHCN-Monthly v4. A year counts only with all twelve months complete.
How does Wichita Falls's climate compare?
Wichita Falls is warmer than 81 of the other 320 places with their own NOAA record in Texas, and wetter than 136. Across the 7,247 U.S. stations with normals, its annual mean of 63.7°F is warmer than 85%.
In the Köppen classification computed from these normals, Wichita Falls 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 Wichita Falls share this climate record?
6 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.
- Lakeside City, TX1,306 people · 11 mi S
- Dean, TX521 people · 7 mi SE
- Pleasant Valley, TX359 people · 7 mi SW
- Randlett, OK297 people · 14 mi N
- Cashion Community, TX295 people · 4 mi N
- Devol, OK93 people · 16 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 Wichita Falls's climate
What is the coldest month in Wichita Falls?
January, with a normal high of 55°F and a normal low of 30°F. The warmest is July (97°F by day, 72°F at night).
Does it snow in Wichita Falls?
Yes: 3 inches in a normal year, falling on 2 days with 0.1 inch or more, the most in February (1.1 inches).
What is the rainiest month in Wichita Falls?
May, with 3.81 in of precipitation in a normal year; the driest is January with 1.20 in.
What plant hardiness zone is Wichita Falls in?
The USDA's 2023 map puts Wichita Falls in zone 8a across its 6 ZIP code areas (8a in 76306, the largest). By the same method at Wichita Falls's NOAA station, the coldest night of a typical year reaches 12°F (30 years, 1991-2020): zone 8a.
How late can frost come in Wichita Falls?
In half of years the last 32°F night comes after March 26; in one year in ten it comes after April 14. Waiting until April 14 leaves about a one-in-ten chance of a later frost.
Nearby and next
- Wichita Falls in OctoberThis month day by day, its records and recent years
- Texas climateThe statewide normals and every place in the state
- Henrietta, TX21 miles from this station, 63.0°F a year
- Grandfield, OK23 miles from this station, 63.1°F a year
- Archer City, TX28 miles from this station, 64.5°F a year
- Walters, OK30 miles from this station, 62.7°F a year
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