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Weather extremes

How extreme does Odessa's weather get?

The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Odessa has recorded — the outer limits of what its weather can do, and how far they sit beyond a normal day.

Based on 15 years of daily weather observations (2011–present), from the Midland Airpark station 33 km away. Updated through May 2026 — an all-time extreme only changes when a more extreme day actually occurs, so some dates are old. That is normal, not stale data.

The four kinds of extreme

The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest single days Odessa has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.

🔥 Hottest day
113°F May 31, 2018

That is about 24°F hotter than a normal May afternoon in Odessa (typical high near 89°F).

The three most extreme on record

1 113°F May 31, 2018
2 112°F Aug 26, 2019
3 111°F Jun 1, 2018
❄️ Coldest night
-1°F Feb 15, 2021

About 37°F colder than a normal February night in Odessa (typical low near 36°F).

The three most extreme on record

1 -1°F Feb 15, 2021recent
2 4°F Jan 26, 2026
3 5°F Feb 14, 2021
🌧️ Most rain in one day
3.77 in Sep 28, 2012

More rain in a single day than Odessa usually gets in the whole month of September (typical September total about 1.4 in).

The three most extreme on record

1 3.77 in Sep 28, 2012
2 2.22 in Jul 2, 2020
3 2.00 in Jun 28, 2021

How hot and cold it gets, month by month

The shaded band is the normal range of daily temperatures for each month. The dots show the most extreme it has ever been — so you can see how far beyond a normal day the records really sit.

-30°-10°10°30°50°70°90°110°130° all-time high 113°F JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
normal range of daily temperatureshottest ever recordedcoldest ever recorded

Odessa's record heat sits well above even a hot day for the season — May's 113°F is about 24°F beyond a normal hot afternoon. Its record cold is just as far below a normal winter night — the dots mark how rare each extreme really is.

In plain terms

In a normal year, Odessa's warmest days reach the mid-90s°F and its coldest nights drop to the low 30s°F. But across the record it has gone as high as 113°F and as low as −1°F. A single day has delivered over 4 inches of rain. Those are the outer edges worth knowing if you are moving here, planning a trip, or thinking about a house.
Methodology & sources

Temperature — modelled for this location from ERA5-Land reanalysis, a ~9 km global grid, because no long-record weather station is close enough to use.

Precipitation — 1991–2020 normals computed from 8 years of daily observations at Midland Airpark, a weather station, about 33 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →