Ideal weather days in Dallas
The best time to visit Dallas for warm, dry weather is October, with about 21 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Dallas's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in October.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Dallas, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too hot92
- Too wet69
- Too cold64
- Too windy53
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), Dallas averaged 129 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 19 a month, 85 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in November (up to 10 a month, 35 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too hot (over 33 °C): 92 a year, mostly in July and August. Another 69 are wet (more than 1 mm of rain), mostly in February to June and September. A day can fail more than one test.
Dallas weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 14 °C 57 °F | 4 | 6 | 19 | 6 of 31 |
| February | 20 °C 67 °F | 7 | 7 | 17 | 11 of 28 |
| March | 24 °C 75 °F | 9 | 9 | 14 | 14 of 31 |
| April | 26 °C 78 °F | 8 | 10 | 11 | 14 of 30 |
| May | 29 °C 84 °F | 11 | 4 | 11 | 16 of 31 |
| June | 34 °C 92 °F | 8 | 3 | 11 | 6 of 30 |
| July | 36 °C 96 °F | 4 | 2 | 19 | 4 of 31 |
| August | 37 °C 99 °F | 2 | 1 | 23 | 2 of 31 |
| September | 34 °C 92 °F | 8 | 1 | 19 | 8 of 30 |
| October | 30 °C 86 °F | 6 | 4 | 24 | 21 of 31 |
| November | 22 °C 71 °F | 5 | 4 | 19 | 16 of 30 |
| December | 18 °C 64 °F | 9 | 3 | 18 | 11 of 31 |
| Year | 79 | 53 | 204 | 129 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 124 warm, dry days
- 2024 133 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Dallas for good weather?
The best time to visit Dallas for warm, dry weather is October, with about 21 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in October (up to 19 a month, 85 a year). Counted from measured days at Dallas Redbird Airport station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Dallas?
On average 79 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was May (11 rain days), the driest August (2).
How many sunny days does Dallas get a year?
About 204 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 October (24).
How warm does Dallas get?
The median daily high ranged from 14 °C (57 °F) in January to 37 °C (99 °F) in August.
Nearby
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More cities in the United States
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- Orlando 203 days
- Tampa 194 days
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- San Francisco 162 days
- Denver 151 days
- Nashville 150 days
- St. Louis 143 days
- Seattle 142 days
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- 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
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Source: Dallas Redbird Airport weather station (72259903971), 13 km from the centre of Dallas, 200 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.