Climate and average weather in Kerrville

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

Best: mid February to mid May

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Kerrville typically varies from 40°F to 92°F, and is rarely below 28°F or above 98°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 Kerrville for warm-weather activities are from mid February to mid May and late September to early December.

Hottest
Aug
92°
Coldest
Jan
40°
Wettest
May
3.6 in
Driest
Jul
1.6 in
Rain / yr
27.3 in
86 wet days
Daylight
10.1–13.9 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,637 ft
30.0°N
Clearest
Oct
41% cloud

Kerrville is city in Kerr County, Texas, United States.

Density
409/km²
people per km²
Founded
1856

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

Kerrville 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 mid February to mid May.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 4.2 months, from May 22 to September 25, with daily high temperatures above 84°F. The hottest month of the year in Kerrville is August, with an average high of 92°F and low of 71°F.

The cool season lasts 2.9 months, from November 24 to February 20, with daily high temperatures below 65°F. The coldest month of the year in Kerrville is January, with an average low of 40°F and high of 59°F.

Days typically run about 20°F warmer than nights year-round.

20°40°60°80°100°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°F)Avg low (°F)
Jan5940
Feb6443
Mar7049
Apr7756
May8364
Jun8969
Jul9171
Aug9271
Sep8666
Oct7857
Nov6748
Dec6041

How hot and cold Kerrville 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, Kerrville feels like about 96°F (around August 6). About 91 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in August.

40°60°80°100°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°F)Air high (°F)Feels-like low (°F)Air low (°F)
Jan59593440
Feb64643843
Mar70704749
Apr77775656
May84836364
Jun91896969
Jul94917171
Aug94927171
Sep87866666
Oct78785757
Nov67674448
Dec60603541

Average hourly temperature in Kerrville

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 92°F, and coldest before dawn in January, near 40°F.

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

Kerrville 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
Jan59° / 40°1.65.610.35.2
Feb64° / 43°1.96.110.96.3
Mar70° / 49°2.67.911.86.9
Apr77° / 56°2.77.912.77.3
May83° / 64°3.610.813.55.9
Jun89° / 69°2.48.713.94.5
Jul91° / 71°1.6613.73.9
Aug92° / 71°1.86.513.13.8
Sep86° / 66°2.67.512.25.4
Oct78° / 57°2.67.111.37.5
Nov67° / 48°2.26.210.56.9
Dec60° / 41°1.9610.15.5

Chance of rain

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

Kerrville gets about 27.3 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 4.4 months, from around Feb 24 to Jul 6, 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 3.6 in over about 11 wet days; July is the driest, with 1.6 in.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetMay 22 · 35%Jul 24 · 16%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan196
Feb216
Mar258
Apr268
May3411
Jun299
Jul196
Aug217
Sep258
Oct237
Nov216
Dec196

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Kerrville collects about 27.3 in of rain across 86 wet days — roughly 2.3 in in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. May is the wettest month with 3.6 in, while July is the driest at just 1.6 in. The three wettest months alone bring about 32% of the year’s total.

00.511.522.533.544.5JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec1.61.92.62.73.62.41.61.82.62.62.21.9
Rainfall (in)Rain days
Jan1.66
Feb1.96
Mar2.68
Apr2.78
May3.611
Jun2.49
Jul1.66
Aug1.87
Sep2.68
Oct2.67
Nov2.26
Dec1.96

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Kerrville, 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 May 31 and lasts for 5.2 months, ending around November 4. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 72% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around November 26 and lasts for 6.1 months, ending around May 30. The cloudiest month is March, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 48% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecAug 7 · 74%Mar 6 · 51%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5347
Feb5347
Mar5248
Apr5545
May5545
Jun6733
Jul7129
Aug7228
Sep6931
Oct6832
Nov6040
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 7, brings about 13 h 54 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 10 h 06 min — a swing of roughly 3 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan10.37:385:54
Feb10.97:246:19
Mar11.86:536:39
Apr12.76:156:59
May13.55:487:18
Jun13.95:397:34
Jul13.75:497:35
Aug13.16:087:13
Sep12.26:266:36
Oct11.36:445:59
Nov10.57:085:36
Dec10.17:305:35

Sunny days

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

Kerrville 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 17 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 1.7 months, from around Sep 16 to Nov 6. The sunniest month is October, with roughly 16 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is May, down near 11 sunny days — about 33% fewer than the October peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightOct 217 daysMay 1310 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan13Mixed
Feb12Mixed
Mar12Mixed
Apr13Mixed
May11Mixed
Jun13Mixed
Jul15Mixed
Aug16Bright
Sep14Mixed
Oct16Bright
Nov14Mixed
Dec14Mixed

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 Kerrville, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 5.4 months, from around April 29 to October 8. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 95% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 9 to April 28, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 98% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 16 · 99%Jul 9 · 4%oppressivecomfortablemuggydryhumidcomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan935200
Feb888300
Mar70181110
Apr52182280
May181231363
Jun26245712
Jul14275810
Aug1631548
Sep171223408
Oct461718162
Nov73131130
Dec897400

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 Kerrville is typically light breeze, near 8 mph, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 7.5 months, from around Nov 12 to Jun 28. The windiest month is April, averaging about 10 mph (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Jun 29 to Oct 29, with September the calmest month at about 7 mph.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezebreezyApr 19 · 10 mphSep 2 · 7 mph
Wind speed (mph)Feels
Jan9light breeze
Feb9light breeze
Mar9light breeze
Apr10light breeze
May9light breeze
Jun9light breeze
Jul8light breeze
Aug7calm
Sep7calm
Oct8light breeze
Nov9light breeze
Dec9light breeze

Best time to visit Kerrville

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late February, Kerrville 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 Kerrville for general outdoor tourist activities run from mid February to mid May and again from late September to early December, with a peak score in the third week of October.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationOct 21 · 7.7

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
Jan5.2fair
Feb6.2good
Mar6.9good
Apr7.3good
May5.9good
Jun4.5fair
Jul3.9fair
Aug3.8fair
Sep5.4fair
Oct7.4good
Nov6.9good
Dec5.5good

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 28 · 7.8

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 Kerrville, 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 92°F), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 59°F), pack a warm layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Kerrville sees daytime highs around 92°F and nights near 71°F. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 7 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Kerrville 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 Kerrville peaks around August 10 at about 11 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 19 at about 4 (moderate).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighVery highExtremeVery highHighModerateAug 10UV 11Dec 19UV 4
UV index (midday)Level
Jan4Moderate
Feb6High
Mar7Very high
Apr10Very high
May11Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug11Extreme
Sep9Very high
Oct7High
Nov5Moderate
Dec4Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Kerrville

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 6 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)
Jan40
Feb5.50
Mar6.53.5
Apr7.55
May8.56
Jun8.56
Jul8.56
Aug86
Sep7.54.5
Oct62
Nov4.50
Dec3.50

Air quality in Kerrville 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 Kerrville is worst in July — around 16 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 3.2× the cleanest month (December, 5 µg/m³).

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

01020JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodJul 1415 µg/m³Dec 135 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan5Good
Feb6Good
Mar7Good
Apr8Good
May13Moderate
Jun13Moderate
Jul16Moderate
Aug11Good
Sep9Good
Oct5Good
Nov5Good
Dec5Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

Kerrville is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about February 21 to November 25 (278 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freeFeb 2190%Nov 2590%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan8131
Feb8718
Mar963
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov943
Dec8231

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. Kerrville banks about 5,978 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)
Jan3
Feb96
Mar302
Apr491
May720
Jun867
Jul964
Aug970
Sep783
Oct539
Nov220
Dec24

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.

Kerrville receives about 4.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.9 and 6.8 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.3 months, from around Mar 22 to Sep 29. The brightest month is July, averaging about 6.7 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.9 kWh/m² — roughly 57% less than the July peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 226.8 kWhDec 152.9 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan3.2Moderate
Feb3.8Moderate
Mar4.7Bright
Apr5.7Bright
May5.9Bright
Jun6.5Intense
Jul6.7Intense
Aug6.3Intense
Sep5.2Bright
Oct4.2Bright
Nov3.2Moderate
Dec2.9Moderate

Where is Kerrville?

Kerrville sits at 30.0°N, 99.1°W, 1,637 ft above sea level, in United States. The nearest listed city is Canyon Lake, 54 mi away.

Topography around Kerrville

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

Within 2 miles, the terrain around Kerrville has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 377 ft around an average of 1,716 ft above sea level; within 10 miles, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 732 ft; within 50 miles, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,663 ft.

The land around Kerrville is covered by trees (45%), artificial surfaces (29%) and grassland (24%) within 2 miles, trees (58%) and grassland (38%) within 10 miles, and trees (60%) and grassland (37%) within 50 miles.

2 miles
377 ft
10 miles
732 ft
50 miles
1,663 ft
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Canyon Lake 54 mi · San Antonio 58 mi · Live Oak 58 mi · Converse 62 mi · Universal City 62 mi · Schertz 62 mi · Cibolo 64 mi · New Braunfels 65 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 Kerrville (30.0474°, -99.1403°, elevation 1,637 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).