Wills Point, Texas climate: Normal weather by month, frost dates and records
Wills Point's normal year runs from 35°F January nights to 95°F August afternoons, with 44.6 inches of precipitation a year. (NOAA 1991-2020 normals)
In metric: a yearly mean of 18.4°C, January lows of 2°C, August highs of 35°C, 1,134 mm of precipitation a year.
- NOAA stationWills Point
- Station IDUSC00419800
- Location32.70°N 96.02°W
- Elevation520 ft (159 m)
- From the centerunder 1 mile
- Population4,050
On October 23, the normal high in Wills Point is 75°F and the normal low 53°F, and the chance of measurable rain or snow is 27%.
Normals describe a typical year at the station, not a forecast. The National Weather Service forecast for Wills Point.
- Jan 56° 35°
- Feb 60° 38°
- Mar 67° 45°
- Apr 75° 53°
- May 83° 63°
- Jun 90° 70°
- Jul 94° 73°
- Aug 95° 73°
- Sep 89° 67°
- Oct 78° 55°
- Nov 66° 45°
- Dec 58° 37°
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 Wills Point each month?
August is the warmest month, with normal highs of 95°F; January the coldest, with normal lows of 35°F. The most precipitation falls in May (4.85 in), the least in July (2.25 in).
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Wet days | 90°F days | Freezing nights | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 56°F | 35°F | 45.1°F | 3.40 | 10 | <1 | 14 | 10 h 10 min |
| February | 60°F | 38°F | 49.1°F | 3.59 | 9 | <1 | 8 | 11 h |
| March | 67°F | 45°F | 56.3°F | 4.24 | 10 | <1 | 3 | 12 h |
| April | 75°F | 53°F | 63.9°F | 3.67 | 9 | <1 | <1 | 13 h |
| May | 83°F | 63°F | 72.5°F | 4.85 | 10 | 3 | <1 | 13 h 50 min |
| June | 90°F | 70°F | 80.2°F | 3.88 | 8 | 16 | <1 | 14 h 20 min |
| July | 94°F | 73°F | 83.9°F | 2.25 | 6 | 26 | <1 | 14 h 10 min |
| August | 95°F | 73°F | 84.2°F | 2.64 | 6 | 25 | <1 | 13 h 20 min |
| September | 89°F | 67°F | 77.7°F | 3.29 | 7 | 14 | <1 | 12 h 30 min |
| October | 78°F | 55°F | 66.9°F | 4.79 | 8 | 2 | <1 | 11 h 30 min |
| November | 66°F | 45°F | 55.5°F | 3.94 | 8 | <1 | 4 | 10 h 30 min |
| December | 58°F | 37°F | 47.4°F | 4.09 | 9 | <1 | 11 | 10 h |
| Year (annual) | 76°F | 55°F | 65.2°F | 44.63 | 99 | 86 | 41 |
The same normals in °C and millimetres
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 13°C | 2°C | 7.3°C | 86 mm |
| February | 16°C | 3°C | 9.5°C | 91 mm |
| March | 20°C | 7°C | 13.5°C | 108 mm |
| April | 24°C | 12°C | 17.7°C | 93 mm |
| May | 28°C | 17°C | 22.5°C | 123 mm |
| June | 32°C | 21°C | 26.8°C | 99 mm |
| July | 35°C | 23°C | 28.8°C | 57 mm |
| August | 35°C | 23°C | 29.0°C | 67 mm |
| September | 32°C | 19°C | 25.4°C | 84 mm |
| October | 26°C | 13°C | 19.4°C | 122 mm |
| November | 19°C | 7°C | 13.1°C | 100 mm |
| December | 14°C | 3°C | 8.6°C | 104 mm |
NOAA publishes no 1991-2020 snowfall normal for this station. The nearest record that keeps one, Emory (18 miles away), gets 1 inches of snow in a normal year; elevation and distance can change that.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00419800; 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 Wills Point?
Normal highs sit between 65°F and 85°F in March, April, May, October and November. Of those, October has the fewest days with rain (8).
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 USC00419800.
When is the last frost in Wills Point?
In Wills Point, the last spring frost (32°F) comes after March 11 in half of years and after April 1 in one year in ten; the first autumn frost comes before November 21 in half of years and before November 3 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 111 year in 10 after April 1; 9 in 10 after February 20
- First autumn frost, half of years before
- November 211 year in 10 before November 3; 9 in 10 before December 8
NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 252 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 280 days.
A hard freeze (28°F) comes after February 28 in half of springs and before December 3 in half of autumns.
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Wills Point in zone 8b in ZIP code 75169, the nearest ZIP area. By the map's own method, the average of each year's coldest night over 1991-2020, Wills Point's NOAA station is in zone 8b: the coldest night of a typical year reaches 17°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 USC00419800; 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 Wills Point?
In a normal year in Wills Point, 86 days a year reach 90°F (13 of them 100°F or more), 41 nights fall to 32°F or colder and 99 days bring measurable precipitation.
- Days at 90°F or more
- 86a normal year
- Days at 100°F or more
- 13a normal year
- Nights at 32°F or colder
- 41a normal year
- Days that stay below freezing
- 2high of 32°F or less
- Days with 0.01 inch of precipitation
- 99a normal year
The highest temperature in this station's record (since 1905) is 113°F, on July 25, 1954; the lowest is −3°F, on February 17, 2021.
The wettest calendar year on that record is 2015, with 72.87 in; the snowiest season is 1963–64, with 14.7 inches.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals, station USC00419800; records: ACIS (NOAA Regional Climate Centers), station USC00419800. Records use complete months only; a month missing more than three days is left out.
How sunny is Wills Point?
Over a year 79% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around Wills Point, 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 Wills Point need?
A normal year in Wills Point brings 2,428 heating degree days, 55% fewer than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 2,541 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 6,204 growing degree days a year above 50°F.
| Month | Heating | Cooling |
|---|---|---|
| January | 617 | 2 |
| February | 451 | 6 |
| March | 293 | 24 |
| April | 109 | 76 |
| May | 15 | 249 |
| June | 0 | 456 |
| July | 0 | 586 |
| August | 0 | 594 |
| September | 4 | 384 |
| October | 80 | 137 |
| November | 308 | 23 |
| December | 550 | 4 |
| Year (annual) | 2,428 | 2,541 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00419800. 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 Wills Point been warmer than normal lately?
2024 averaged 67.0°F, 1.8°F above the 1991-2020 normal of 65.2°F. 3 of the 4 complete years since 2021 ran warmer than the normal.
| Year | Mean | Against normal | Precip. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 64.9°F | −0.3°F | 45.34 |
| 2022 | 65.7°F | +0.5°F | 32.60 |
| 2023 | 67.0°F | +1.8°F | 40.00 |
| 2024 | 67.0°F | +1.8°F | 72.42 |
Over 61 complete years from 1947 to 2024, the station's annual mean temperature rose at a fitted 1.7°F per century (+0.10°C per decade). A fitted rate summarizes the whole record; single years swing well above and below it.
Source: observed years: ACIS, station USC00419800; trend: NOAA GHCN-Monthly v4. A year counts only with all twelve months complete.
How does Wills Point's climate compare?
Wills Point is warmer than 140 of the other 320 places with their own NOAA record in Texas, and wetter than 251. 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, Wills Point 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 Wills Point 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.
- Canton, TX4,841 people · 13 mi SE
- Edgewood, TX1,752 people · 8 mi E
- Myrtle Springs, TX717 people · 7 mi SE
- Fruitvale, TX521 people · 12 mi E
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 Wills Point's climate
What is the coldest month in Wills Point?
January, with a normal high of 56°F and a normal low of 35°F. The warmest is August (95°F by day, 73°F at night).
Does it snow in Wills Point?
Yes. NOAA publishes no 1991-2020 snowfall normal for Wills Point's NOAA station; the nearest record that keeps one, Emory (18 miles away), records 1 inches of snow in a normal year.
What is the rainiest month in Wills Point?
May, with 4.85 in of precipitation in a normal year; the driest is July with 2.25 in.
What plant hardiness zone is Wills Point in?
The USDA's 2023 map puts Wills Point in zone 8b in ZIP code 75169, the nearest ZIP area. By the same method at Wills Point's NOAA station, the coldest night of a typical year reaches 17°F (30 years, 1991-2020): zone 8b.
How late can frost come in Wills Point?
In half of years the last 32°F night comes after March 11; in one year in ten it comes after April 1. Waiting until April 1 leaves about a one-in-ten chance of a later frost.
Nearby and next
- Texas climateThe statewide normals and every place in the state
- Lake Tawakoni, TX13 miles from this station, 64.3°F a year
- Terrell, TX15 miles from this station, 66.3°F a year
- Kaufman, TX18 miles from this station, 64.7°F a year
- Emory, TX18 miles from this station, 63.4°F a year
- Compare two placesMonth by month, side by side
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