Dallas Love Field heat and cold days, 1996 to 2025

Compiled by the Low Price Auto Glass Wiki editorial team · Published 9 November 2026 · Checked 9 November 2026

At a glance: NOAA’s daily records for Dallas Love Field show 746 days at or above 100°F from 1996 to 2025, an average of 24.9 a year, with a peak of 73 in 2011 and a high of 112°F in July 2018^[1].

What was counted?

The table counts five things for each calendar year from 1996 to 2025 at the Dallas Love Field weather station, NOAA station USW00013960: days whose high reached 100°F or more, days at 105°F or more, days whose low fell to 32°F or below, days on which the high and the low were at least 30°F apart, and the highest temperature of the year^[1][2]. Love Field is the older of Dallas’s two main airports, about six miles north-west of downtown^[3]. It was chosen because its daily record runs unbroken through the whole period; the file goes back to 1939. Download the CSV file.

What do the 30 years show?

• 746 days at or above 100°F, an average of 24.9 a year; every one of the 30 years had at least two.
• 130 days at or above 105°F, about 4.3 a year, but heavily bunched in a few summers.
• 712 days with a low at or below freezing, about 23.7 a year.
• 697 days with a 30°F or wider gap between low and high, about 23.2 a year.
• Hottest reading: 112°F in 2018, on 22 July.

All figures come from the station’s daily maximum and minimum temperatures as published by NOAA^[1].

How did each year compare?

Which summers stand out?

2011 is the outlier, with 73 days at 100°F or more and 28 at 105°F or more. 2023 had fewer triple-digit days but more extreme ones: 22 at 105°F or above. The mildest summers were 2004 (2 days), 2002 (4) and 2007 (4)^[1].

When in the year does the heat fall?

August carries the most triple-digit days, 340 of 746, and July most of the rest. The earliest 100°F reading in the 30 years came on 17 April 2006 and the latest on 29 September 2011^[1]. Cold is concentrated the other way: about nine in ten freezing nights fell between December and February, and the coldest reading of the period was 2°F on 16 February 2021, during that month’s statewide winter storm^[1].

How was it built?

1. Downloaded the GHCN-Daily file for station USW00013960 from NOAA NCEI^[1].
2. Kept 1 January 1996 to 31 December 2025 and dropped any value carrying a quality flag.
3. Converted the daily maximum and minimum from tenths of a degree Celsius to whole degrees Fahrenheit.
4. Counted, for each year, days with a high of 100°F or more and 105°F or more, days with a low of 32°F or less, and days with a range of 30°F or more.
5. Published the yearly rows as a CSV file under CC BY 4.0, with a column for the number of days with data.

Limits: one station cannot speak for every street, and airport sensors read shade air temperature, not the surface of a parked car. 1997 and 1998 have a few missing days, noted in the CSV. Monthly figures use the same daily file.

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Sources cited

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g} Global Historical Climatology Network Daily, station USW00013960 (Dallas Love Field), daily file. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Verified 9 November 2026.
2. ^ Global Historical Climatology Network - Daily (GHCN-Daily), dataset description. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Verified 9 November 2026.
3. ^ Dallas Love Field. Wikipedia. Verified 9 November 2026.

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