Climate Comparison Across Our 7 Metro Areas
Average summer high and winter low temperatures for each of our seven 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.
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 |
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.