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Weather in Tornillo, TX · National Weather Service + NOAA

Tornillo has hot summers

Tornillo has mild winters and hot summers, with very little rain. A typical July afternoon reaches 97°, a January night drops to 29°, and about 2 inches of snow falls in a normal winter. A typical November afternoon reaches 70°, and nights fall to 36°.

Winter 62°/30°Spring 83°/48°Summer 97°/67°Fall 80°/49°
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Sunrise 8:21 am · sunset 7:14 pm

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What stands out about Tornillo’s weather

Read from 30 years of NOAA records. Each one opens the full story on the Climate page.

Climate →
Hot summersJuly afternoons average 97°, hotter than 98% of U.S. towns.Among Texas’s coldest wintersJanuary nights average 29°, colder than 1,726 of 1,859 Texas towns.A dry climateJust 9 inches of rain and melted snow a year, less than 99% of U.S. towns.Plenty of 90° daysAbout 110 days a year reach 90°.
A normal year

Where today sits in Tornillo’s year

Typical highs and lows month by month, from 30 years of NOAA records.

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Winter
62° / 30°
Snow is rare
Spring
83° / 48°
Last frost around Mar 21
Summer
97° / 67°
110 days reach 90° in a normal year
Fall now
80° / 49°
First frost around Nov 6
4 daysuntil the usual first frost (Nov 6)
Best months to be outside
MarAprOct
Highs of 62–84° and lows of 40° or more
How much snow does Tornillo get?About 2 inches a winter.When is it wettest?July, with 2.1 inches.Is it warmer than it used to be?+1.7° vs. the 20th century.

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Forecast, conditions and alerts: National Weather Service. Climate: NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020 and 1901–2000. Temperatures and rainfall come from NOAA’s gridded normals for Tornillo itself (about a 3-mile square). Snow, frost dates and day counts: the NOAA station at Tornillo 2 Sse, TX (4 mi). Sunrise and sunset are calculated from the town’s position. Normals are 30-year averages, not a forecast.