Austin, Charlotte, Houston, Phoenix, Raleigh, Dallas–Fort Worth, Atlanta lead with 12 playable months a year, while Denver, Chicago, Minneapolis–St. Paul have the fewest at 7.
NOAA 1991–2020 normals · pulled 2026-11-03 · rule v1.0
Most disc golf guides assume weather doesn’t matter. Ours does. A round on a 40-degree morning is a different game than the same course in July, and “playable” is our word for the difference: a month where daytime highs average at least 50°F, overnight lows stay at or above 28°F, and rain averages 10 days or fewer.
We built this page from NOAA’s 1991-2020 climate normals — thirty years of averaged monthly data from the airport weather station nearest each of our 15 cities. That’s deliberate. Normals describe what a month is usually like, not what next Saturday will be, so treat this as a planning tool, not a forecast. Wind isn’t scored yet; we’d rather leave a blank than pretend we measured it.
The heatmap below is the whole dataset. Your city’s row tells you when the season runs — and, just as usefully, when it doesn’t.
Fifteen cities, twelve months. Activate any cell (click, tap, or Enter) for the full month: normal high and low, rain days, and civil dusk.
| City | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Playable |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austin | 12 | ||||||||||||
| Denver | 7 | ||||||||||||
| Portland | 8 | ||||||||||||
| Chicago | 7 | ||||||||||||
| Seattle | 8 | ||||||||||||
| Charlotte | 12 | ||||||||||||
| Houston | 12 | ||||||||||||
| Phoenix | 12 | ||||||||||||
| Nashville | 11 | ||||||||||||
| Raleigh | 12 | ||||||||||||
| Dallas–Fort Worth | 12 | ||||||||||||
| Kansas City | 9 | ||||||||||||
| Atlanta | 12 | ||||||||||||
| Cincinnati | 9 | ||||||||||||
| Minneapolis–St. Paul | 7 |
Climate source. NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020, monthly (normals-monthly-1991-2020), NCEI Access Data Service — NCEI Access Data Service. Dataset version 1991-2020. NOAA data is public domain.
Per month, per city: normal high (MLY-TMAX-NORMAL), normal low (MLY-TMIN-NORMAL), normal precipitation (MLY-PRCP-NORMAL), and average days with precipitation ≥ 0.10 in (MLY-PRCP-AVGNDS-GE010HI).
Dusk. Civil dusk for the 15th of each month, computed with the suncalc library and shown in the city's local time zone.
The rule (v1.0). normal max >= 50F AND normal min >= 28F AND rain days (>= 0.10 in) <= 10. Marginal: fails exactly one condition. Off-season: fails two or more conditions.
Pulled 2026-11-03. Next scheduled refresh 2027-11-03. Raw data: playable-months.json.
Known limits. A station's normals are not a course's microclimate; normals are 30-year averages, not forecasts; wind is not factored in yet (v1).
| City | Station | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Austin | AUSTIN-CAMP MABRY (USW00013958) | 3.1 km |
| Denver | DENVER-STAPLETON (USW00023062) | 17.5 km |
| Portland | PORTLAND INTL AP (USW00024229) | 7.4 km |
| Chicago | CHICAGO MIDWAY AP (USW00014819) | 7 km |
| Seattle | SEATTLE BOEING FLD (USW00024234) | 3 km |
| Charlotte | CHARLOTTE DOUGLAS AP (USW00013881) | 11.7 km |
| Houston | HOUSTON INTERCONTINENTAL AP (USW00012960) | 19 km |
| Phoenix | PHOENIX AP (USW00023183) | 5.3 km |
| Nashville | NASHVILLE INTL AP (USW00013897) | 1.4 km |
| Raleigh | RALEIGH AP (USW00013722) | 8.2 km |
| Dallas–Fort Worth | DALLAS FAA AP (USW00013960) | 8.5 km |
| Kansas City | KANSAS CITY DWTN AP (USW00013988) | 6.6 km |
| Atlanta | ATLANTA DEKALB PEACHTREE AP (USW00053863) | 12.9 km |
| Cincinnati | CINCINNATI MUNI AP LUNKEN FLD (USW00093812) | 9.5 km |
| Minneapolis–St. Paul | MINNEAPOLIS-ST PAUL INTL AP (USW00014922) | 17.9 km |
Nearest airport (WBAN) station with complete monthly normals. Distance from the metro centroid of mapped courses.