Creepy & Chilly or Haunted & Hot, Houston’s Halloween Climatology🧛

HOUSTON – Halloween falls in late October, which is a time of change in SE Texas. Some years it can be quite cold, but other years it can be rather warm! Our normal high temperature on Halloween is a comfortable 78 degrees. Our normal low is 56 degrees. Although these are the averages, our recordsare quite extreme.

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Houston Halloween Records:

The coldest Halloween on record for Houston occurred in 1993, when the temperature reached a frigid 29 degrees. Compare that to the warmest Halloweens on record when we hit 88 degrees. We have hit 88 on Halloween four times: 2004, 1977, 1972, and 1919.

October is the second wettest month in Houston, so it’s no surprise we often see rainfall around the holiday. The wettest Halloween on record occurred in 2015, when Houston saw a whopping 5.14 inches of rain.

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Houston Halloween the past several years:

Just before Halloween last year we saw a cold front! This brought much cooler temperatures for the holiday. Our high last year with 62 with a chilly low of 46.

Both 2022 and 2021 had a cool Halloween morning with a warm afternoon. In 2022 our high was 80 and our low was 53. In 2021 our high was 81 and our low was 48.

Although many had masks with their costumes, temperatures were pretty comfortable in 2020 for the kiddos! Our high was 75 with a low of 43.

The coldest Halloween in the last five years was in 2019 where we saw a low of 40 and a high of 57.

In 2018 we had a high of 77 with a low of 64. This year we also saw severe thunderstorm warnings across SE Texas in the evening. You can see twin lightning strikes in the photo below from our coverage in the

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Houston Halloween this year:

This year we will not be setting any records on Halloween. Our forecast high is in the lower-80s with a low temperature in the lower-70s. There is a chance for rainfall, so make sure if your outfit is a little long you wear lifts or hem it in case we have muddy streets. We do not expect any flooding rainfall, so it won’t go down as the wettest.

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