Ideal weather days in Austin
The best time to visit Austin for warm, dry weather is March, November and December, with 19 to 23 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Austin's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in March, November and December.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Austin, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too hot145
- Too wet66
- Too windy35
- Too cold32
A day can fail more than one test.
Warm and dry, beach and mild days
With the Warm & dry preset (a high of 18–33 °C, no more than 1 mm of rain, wind under 20 km/h), Austin averaged 134 days a year in 2023–2025. Every number here is counted from real measured days in the United States, not from climate averages.
Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in October (up to 14 a month, 58 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in December (up to 15 a month, 51 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too hot (over 33 °C): 145 a year, mostly in June to September. Another 66 are wet (more than 1 mm of rain), mostly in January and March to July. A day can fail more than one test.
Austin weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 18 °C 64 °F | 8 | 5 | 14 | 12 of 31 |
| February | 24 °C 75 °F | 5 | 5 | 8 | 16 of 28 |
| March | 27 °C 81 °F | 9 | 5 | 10 | 19 of 31 |
| April | 30 °C 85 °F | 8 | 8 | 7 | 17 of 30 |
| May | 33 °C 91 °F | 10 | 2 | 4 | 11 of 31 |
| June | 36 °C 97 °F | 6 | 1 | 6 | 2 of 30 |
| July | 37 °C 98 °F | 6 | 1 | 9 | 1 of 31 |
| August | 39 °C 101 °F | 3 | 1 | 11 | 0 of 31 |
| September | 37 °C 98 °F | 4 | 2 | 7 | 2 of 30 |
| October | 33 °C 91 °F | 6 | 3 | 13 | 10 of 31 |
| November | 27 °C 80 °F | 5 | 2 | 12 | 21 of 30 |
| December | 22 °C 72 °F | 8 | 1 | 14 | 23 of 31 |
| Year | 76 | 35 | 115 | 134 of 365 |
Typical high is the median daily maximum. A rain day has 1 mm or more; a windy day a mean wind above 20 km/h; a clear day a daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average (9:00–17:00). Days are averaged over 2023–2025 and scaled to the length of each month.
Year by year
- 2023 143 warm, dry days
- 2024 141 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Austin for good weather?
The best time to visit Austin for warm, dry weather is March, November and December, with 19 to 23 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in October (up to 14 a month, 58 a year). Counted from measured days at Austin Bergstrom International Airport station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Austin?
On average 76 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was May (10 rain days), the driest August (3).
How many sunny days does Austin get a year?
About 115 days a year had mostly clear skies (daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average, 9:00–17:00), most of them in January (14).
How warm does Austin get?
The median daily high ranged from 18 °C (64 °F) in January to 39 °C (101 °F) in August.
Nearby
- San Antonio120 km157 days
- Houston240 km141 days
- Dallas290 km129 days
- New Orleans740 km144 days
More cities in the United States
- San Diego 317 days
- Tijuana 311 days
- Los Angeles 296 days
- Honolulu 224 days
- Orlando 203 days
- Tampa 194 days
- Miami 181 days
- Charlotte 177 days
- Sacramento 169 days
- Atlanta 168 days
- Phoenix 166 days
- San Francisco 162 days
- Denver 151 days
- Nashville 150 days
- St. Louis 143 days
- Seattle 142 days
- Kansas City 135 days
- Albuquerque 132 days
- Detroit 131 days
- New York 129 days
- Las Vegas 126 days
- Chicago 120 days
- Minneapolis 120 days
- Boise 117 days
- Billings 116 days
- Boston 116 days
- Salt Lake City 107 days
- Fairbanks 81 days
- Anchorage 55 days
- Juneau 45 days
Where is the best climate in the United States?
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Source: Austin Bergstrom International Airport weather station (72254013904), 11 km from the centre of Austin, 147 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 89% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.