Climate Comparison Across Our 8 Metro Areas

Average summer high and winter low temperatures for each of our eight metro areas, from NOAA's 1991–2020 climate normals — the same data already cited on every individual neighborhood guide on this site. Listed alphabetically by metro; not ranked.

This is a list of facts, not a ranking. The table below is listed alphabetically by metro, the same neutral order used on the property-tax comparison page — we're not calling any of these climates "best." Milder winters and hotter summers are trade-offs a person weighs for themselves; the numbers speak for themselves regardless of which trade-off you'd make.

Average summer high & winter low, by metro

Figures are NOAA's 1991–2020 climate normals for each metro's core/anchor city — the same normals already cited on every individual neighborhood guide on this site, not a new figure invented for this page. Listed alphabetically by metro.

Metro	Average summer high	Average winter low
Atlanta, GA	90°F	36°F
Austin, TX	96–97°F	38°F
Charlotte, NC	90°F	32°F
Dallas-Fort Worth, TX	96°F (Dallas) / 94°F (Fort Worth)	36°F
Houston, TX	95°F	44°F
Jacksonville, FL	92°F	42°F
Nashville, TN	91°F	30°F
Orlando-Daytona Beach-Melbourne, FL	92°F	52°F

Climate varies within every metro, too

These are single anchor-city figures, and every metro on this site has real variation across its own neighborhoods and suburbs — a station reading in one part of a metro can differ by a few degrees from another, even at similar distance from downtown. If you want the figure for a specific place rather than the metro-wide anchor number, every neighborhood and city guide on this site lists its own NOAA normal in the Quick Facts sidebar.

A note on what "normal" means here

NOAA's 1991–2020 normals are 30-year averages, not a forecast or a guarantee for any specific year — an unusually hot summer or a cold snap can fall well outside these figures, and normals themselves get revised roughly every ten years as NOAA rolls the averaging window forward. Treat these as a long-run baseline for comparing metros, not a prediction of next year's weather.