Ideal weather days in Houston
The best time to visit Houston for warm, dry weather is February to April and October to December, with 16 to 20 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Houston's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in February to April and October to December.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Houston, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too hot107
- Too wet80
- Too windy49
- Too cold27
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), Houston averaged 141 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 15 a month, 53 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in November and December (up to 7 a month, 29 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too hot (over 33 °C): 107 a year, mostly in June to September. Another 80 are wet (more than 1 mm of rain), mostly in April to July and November to January. A day can fail more than one test.
Houston weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 19 °C 66 °F | 11 | 7 | 12 | 10 of 31 |
| February | 24 °C 74 °F | 5 | 6 | 7 | 16 of 28 |
| March | 26 °C 79 °F | 6 | 8 | 7 | 20 of 31 |
| April | 29 °C 83 °F | 6 | 9 | 6 | 17 of 30 |
| May | 31 °C 88 °F | 9 | 5 | 2 | 14 of 31 |
| June | 34 °C 93 °F | 10 | 2 | 2 | 4 of 30 |
| July | 35 °C 95 °F | 7 | 0 | 1 | 2 of 31 |
| August | 37 °C 98 °F | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 of 31 |
| September | 35 °C 94 °F | 9 | 3 | 5 | 2 of 30 |
| October | 31 °C 88 °F | 6 | 4 | 12 | 17 of 31 |
| November | 26 °C 78 °F | 8 | 3 | 8 | 19 of 30 |
| December | 22 °C 71 °F | 9 | 2 | 12 | 19 of 31 |
| Year | 89 | 49 | 75 | 141 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 133 warm, dry days
- 2024 148 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Houston for good weather?
The best time to visit Houston for warm, dry weather is February to April and October to December, with 16 to 20 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in October (up to 15 a month, 53 a year). Counted from measured days at Houston William P Hobby Airport station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Houston?
On average 89 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was January (11 rain days), the driest August (3).
How many sunny days does Houston get a year?
About 75 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 December (12).
How warm does Houston get?
The median daily high ranged from 19 °C (66 °F) in January to 37 °C (98 °F) in August.
Nearby
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Source: Houston William P Hobby Airport weather station (72244012918), 15 km from the centre of Houston, 13 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.