Climate and average weather in Corsicana

In Corsicana, the summers are humid, sweltering, fairly dry, and mostly clear and the winters are cool and partly cloudy.

Best: late February to mid May

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Corsicana typically varies from 40°F to 95°F, and is rarely below 27°F or above 101°F. August is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Corsicana for warm-weather activities are from late February to mid May and late September to early December.

Hottest
Aug
95°
Coldest
Jan
40°
Wettest
May
4.5 in
Driest
Jul
1.8 in
Rain / yr
38.9 in
96 wet days
Daylight
9.9–14.1 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
443 ft
32.1°N
Clearest
Oct
41% cloud

Corsicana is city in and county seat of Navarro County, Texas, United States.

Density
396/km²
people per km²
Founded
1848

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Corsicana weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around late February to mid May.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Corsicana, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 4.0 months, from May 27 to September 26, with daily high temperatures above 86°F. The hottest month of the year in Corsicana is August, with an average high of 95°F and low of 76°F.

The cool season lasts 3.2 months, from November 26 to March 2, with daily high temperatures below 65°F. The coldest month of the year in Corsicana is January, with an average low of 40°F and high of 58°F.

Days typically run about 19°F warmer than nights year-round.

20°40°60°80°100°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°F)Avg low (°F)
Jan5840
Feb6243
Mar6950
Apr7657
May8366
Jun9073
Jul9476
Aug9576
Sep8970
Oct7959
Nov6849
Dec6042

How hot and cold Corsicana really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the hottest afternoons, once humidity is folded in, Corsicana feels like about 102°F (around August 6). About 113 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in August.

40°60°80°100°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°F)Air high (°F)Feels-like low (°F)Air low (°F)
Jan58583440
Feb62623843
Mar69694850
Apr76765757
May85836666
Jun95907373
Jul101947676
Aug100957676
Sep91897070
Oct79795959
Nov68684649
Dec60603642

Average hourly temperature in Corsicana

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on August afternoons, near 95°F, and coldest before dawn in January, near 40°F.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Corsicana weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°F)Rainfall (inches)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan58° / 40°3.07.410.14.7
Feb62° / 43°3.38.110.85.5
Mar69° / 50°3.99.611.86.5
Apr76° / 57°3.8912.87.0
May83° / 66°4.511.213.65.6
Jun90° / 73°2.98.814.14.0
Jul94° / 76°1.86.513.93.0
Aug95° / 76°2.06.213.22.8
Sep89° / 70°2.46.312.24.7
Oct79° / 59°4.27.511.27.2
Nov68° / 49°3.17.510.46.8
Dec60° / 42°3.77.99.95.1

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Corsicana gets about 38.9 in of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is some rain, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 4.9 months, from around Feb 6 to Jul 4, peaking in May at about 35% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 24.

May is the wettest month by volume, with 4.5 in over about 11 wet days; July is the driest, with 1.8 in.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetMay 6 · 35%Jul 24 · 17%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan247
Feb288
Mar3110
Apr309
May3411
Jun309
Jul217
Aug216
Sep216
Oct248
Nov258
Dec258

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Corsicana collects about 38.9 in of rain across 96 wet days — roughly 3.2 in in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. May is the wettest month with 4.5 in, while July is the driest at just 1.8 in. The three wettest months alone bring about 33% of the year’s total.

0123456JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec3.03.33.93.84.52.91.82.02.44.23.13.7
Rainfall (in)Rain days
Jan3.07
Feb3.38
Mar3.910
Apr3.89
May4.511
Jun2.99
Jul1.87
Aug2.06
Sep2.46
Oct4.28
Nov3.18
Dec3.78

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Corsicana, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows moderate seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around June 2 and lasts for 5.1 months, ending around November 3. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 73% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around November 26 and lasts for 6.2 months, ending around June 1. The cloudiest month is March, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 53% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecSep 29 · 74%Mar 10 · 46%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5149
Feb4852
Mar4753
Apr5149
May5248
Jun6535
Jul7030
Aug7327
Sep7030
Oct6634
Nov5842
Dec5347

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around June 11, brings about 14 h 06 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 9 h 54 min — a swing of roughly 4 h 12 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan10.17:325:39
Feb10.87:166:05
Mar11.86:436:28
Apr12.86:026:50
May13.65:337:11
Jun14.15:237:29
Jul13.95:347:29
Aug13.25:547:06
Sep12.26:146:26
Oct11.26:355:47
Nov10.47:015:21
Dec9.97:255:19

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Corsicana averages about 14 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 10 and 18 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.7 months, from around Jun 13 to Dec 2. The sunniest month is September, with roughly 17 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is May, down near 10 sunny days — about 38% fewer than the September peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantSep 2918 daysMay 2110 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan12Mixed
Feb10Mixed
Mar12Mixed
Apr12Mixed
May11Mixed
Jun13Mixed
Jul16Bright
Aug17Bright
Sep16Bright
Oct17Bright
Nov14Mixed
Dec13Mixed

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Corsicana, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 5.3 months, from around April 28 to October 5. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 99% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 6 to April 27, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 96% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 20 · 97%Jul 15 · 1%humidoppressivecomfortablemuggydrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan9153000
Feb8685100
Mar691612300
Apr4618211410
May15112039150
Jun121036492
Jul01835532
Aug131343391
Sep16101831251
Oct4518171560
Nov721311400
Dec8774100

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Across the year, average wind speed in Corsicana is typically light breeze, near 8 mph, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 7.0 months, from around Oct 26 to May 27. The windiest month is April, averaging about 10 mph (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around May 28 to Oct 25, with August the calmest month at about 7 mph.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezebreezyApr 8 · 10 mphAug 31 · 6 mph
Wind speed (mph)Feels
Jan9light breeze
Feb9light breeze
Mar10light breeze
Apr10light breeze
May9light breeze
Jun8light breeze
Jul7calm
Aug7calm
Sep7calm
Oct8light breeze
Nov9light breeze
Dec9light breeze

Best time to visit Corsicana

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Corsicana throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around early March, Corsicana is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 64°F and 82°F. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Corsicana for general outdoor tourist activities run from late February to mid May and again from late September to early December, with a peak score in the last week of October.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationOct 24 · 7.5

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan4.7fair
Feb5.5good
Mar6.5good
Apr7.0good
May5.7good
Jun4.0fair
Jul3.0poor
Aug2.9poor
Sep4.7fair
Oct7.1good
Nov6.8good
Dec5.1fair

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 75°F and 93°F. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Corsicana for hot-weather activities run from mid April to early July and again from late August to late October, with a peak score in the last week of September.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 30 · 7.9

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Corsicana, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

For a warm-season trip around August (highs near 95°F), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 58°F), pack a warm layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Corsicana sees daytime highs around 95°F and nights near 76°F. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 6 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Corsicana by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Corsicana peaks around August 10 at about 10 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 20 at about 3 (moderate).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — every month of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighVery highExtremeVery highHighModerateAug 10UV 10Dec 20UV 3
UV index (midday)Level
Jan4Moderate
Feb5High
Mar6High
Apr9Very high
May10Very high
Jun10Extreme
Jul10Extreme
Aug10Extreme
Sep8Very high
Oct6High
Nov5Moderate
Dec3Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Corsicana

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in August the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 5.5 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan30
Feb50
Mar61
Apr7.55
May85.5
Jun8.56
Jul8.56
Aug85.5
Sep6.53.5
Oct5.50
Nov40
Dec20

Air quality in Corsicana by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Corsicana is worst in July — around 19 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.5× the cleanest month (October, 8 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodJul 1519 µg/m³Oct 248 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan8Good
Feb9Good
Mar11Good
Apr11Good
May15Moderate
Jun17Moderate
Jul19Moderate
Aug15Moderate
Sep12Good
Oct8Good
Nov8Good
Dec8Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayReliably frost-free (≥90%)

Corsicana is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about February 26 to November 29 (277 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freeFeb 2690%Nov 2990%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan7931
Feb8717
Mar960
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov950
Dec8428

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 50°F)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 50°F: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Corsicana banks about 6,542 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°F·days)
Jan0
Feb72
Mar293
Apr500
May765
Jun953
Jul1,097
Aug1,101
Sep885
Oct591
Nov252
Dec32

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Corsicana receives about 4.7 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.5 and 6.8 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.3 months, from around Mar 25 to Oct 2. The brightest month is July, averaging about 6.7 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.6 kWh/m² — roughly 61% less than the July peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 176.8 kWhDec 162.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.9Moderate
Feb3.4Moderate
Mar4.4Bright
Apr5.4Bright
May5.7Bright
Jun6.4Intense
Jul6.7Intense
Aug6.2Intense
Sep5.1Bright
Oct4.0Bright
Nov3.0Moderate
Dec2.6Moderate

Where is Corsicana?

Corsicana sits at 32.1°N, 96.5°W, 443 ft above sea level, in United States. The nearest listed city is Ennis, 19 mi away.

Topography around Corsicana

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 2, 10 and 50 miles of Corsicana.

Within 2 miles, the terrain around Corsicana has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 128 ft around an average of 430 ft above sea level; within 10 miles, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 217 ft; within 50 miles, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 699 ft.

The land around Corsicana is covered by trees (44%), grassland (33%) and artificial surfaces (21%) within 2 miles, grassland (62%) and trees (26%) within 10 miles, and grassland (53%) and trees (31%) within 50 miles.

2 miles
128 ft
10 miles
217 ft
50 miles
699 ft
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Ennis 19 mi · Waxahachie 30 mi · Seagoville 38 mi · Lancaster 38 mi · Midlothian 41 mi · DeSoto 41 mi · Cedar Hill 44 mi · Balch Springs 45 mi

United States travel facts

Power plugs
Type A / B
120 V · 60 Hz
Prices
≈ 100% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$90,027
2025
Happiness
6.8 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
98%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
5.8
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
12.7
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
High
World Bank
Religion
Protestant 47%unaffiliated 23%Roman Catholic 21%Jewish 2%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Corsicana (32.0954°, -96.4689°, elevation 443 ft), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).