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Texas · 2,314,157 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 15:24

Mainly clear
27°
Mainly clear
Feels like 32°C
Wind
13 km/h
Gusts
16 km/h
Humidity
54 %
Pressure
1021 hPa
Clouds
49 %
Storm
No
Rise 07:32 Set 18:37 Day 11 h 4 min UV 3 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Afternoon
Mainly clear
Mainly clear
28°27°
Feels like 32°
Wind ↑ SE 15 km/h
Humidity 42 %
Evening
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
23°
Feels like 27°
Wind ↑ SSE 10 km/h
Gusts 18 km/h
Humidity 58 %
16:00
Mainly clear
28°
SE 15

Houston forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +5.8° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
14°18°23°27°31°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed24°16°Thu 29 Oct: max 28° · min 18° · normal 17.9°Fri 30 Oct: max 24° · min 19° · normal 17.7°Sat 31 Oct: max 27° · min 21° · normal 17.6°Sun 1 Nov: max 29° · min 22° · normal 17.6°Mon 2 Nov: max 27° · min 22° · normal 17.4°Tue 3 Nov: max 27° · min 23° · normal 17.2°Wed 4 Nov: max 24° · min 16° · normal 17.0°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu14°22°30°29°15°031
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Houston climate: what a normal year looks like

Afternoons reach 30 °C or more from June to September; the typical peak is 33 °C in August.

There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 86 mm and 118 mm on average.

The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 33 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 7 °C.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 27 °C, 1 °C cooler than a normal October (28 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan17 °C7 °C107 mm
Feb19 °C10 °C86 mm
Mar23 °C13 °C96 mm
Apr25 °C16 °C100 mm
May29 °C20 °C96 mm
Jun32 °C24 °C117 mm
Jul33 °C24 °C93 mm
Aug33 °C24 °C100 mm
Sep31 °C22 °C118 mm
Oct28 °C18 °C105 mm
Nov22 °C12 °C106 mm
Dec18 °C8 °C108 mm
Whole year26 °C16 °C1,230 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 29.76° N, 95.36° W, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.

Air you breathe in Houston: pollution and pollen

2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.514µg/m³
PM1016µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Houston

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Houston, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Full-screen rain radar and next-hour rain on RainAtlas
Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

Moon over Houston

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 19:23 Set 09:28
Fri 30/10 79%
Sat 31/10 69%
Sun 1/11 59%
Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter
Tue 3/11 38%
Wed 4/11 28%
Thu 5/11 19%
Fri 6/11 12%
Sat 7/11 6%
Sun 8/11 2%
Mon 9/11 0%
Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Moonrise and moonset in local time (America/Chicago); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Sea and tides near Houston

Tide station used: Whiteoak Bayou at Main St Houston Tx

Sea state
Smooth
waves 0.7 m
Period
4 s
Swell
0.0 m
TodayThu 29/10
High tide 01:27 0.7 m
Low tide 17:36 0.0 m
TomorrowFri 30/10
High tide 04:35 0.6 m
Low tide 18:53 0.0 m
SatSat 31/10
High tide 05:34 0.6 m
Low tide 20:03 0.1 m
SunSun 01/11
High tide 05:15 0.6 m

Indicative heights above chart datum. Coefficient: 20 for the weakest tides, 120 for the strongest.

Look up a past day in Houston

Curious about the weather in Houston on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Houston weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Houston, Texas: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “mainly clear”, it is 27 °C (feels like 32 °C) and the wind blows at 13 km/h.

Expected range today: 18 °C to 28 °C and a dry sky; keep an eye on thunderstorms. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms, plus the tide times for Whiteoak Bayou at Main St Houston Tx.

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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations