Best time to visit Dallas

Dallas is a city of two halves. November scores 87 and August scores 40 — a 47-point swing, which is the difference between a holiday and an endurance test. The month you pick matters more here than almost anywhere. 4 of the twelve months sit within ten points of the best, so there is more than one right answer.

August is the warmest month at 36.5 °C and January the coolest at 13.3 °C — a 23.2 °C spread across the year. 130 days a year top 30 °C, more than a third of the calendar, so heat is the baseline here rather than a season. 34 nights a year dip below freezing.

There is a real wet season here. May to June carry the rain — up to 12 wet days in a month — while January, February, November and December drop as low as 6. That 6-day gap is the biggest single difference between a good month and a bad one in Dallas, and it moves further than the temperature does.

Daylight runs from 10 hours in winter to 14.3 in summer, enough to notice on a sightseeing itinerary.

The three strongest months are November, October, March. The one to think twice about is August. Each month below has its own page with rainfall reliability, extremes, daylight and crowd levels.

Dallas month by month