Big Ten football weather by stadium
What a typical Saturday feels like at every Big Ten home stadium, all season and month by month. Weather score: 0 to 100, higher is better. Ideal is 100, Comfortable 90 to 99, Mixed 75 to 89, Rough 50 to 74, Harsh under 50.
Where Big Ten stadiums sit
One dot per stadium, by typical Weather score. The shaded band is where the middle half of all 167 stadiums fall; a dot to its right is milder than most.
- 80859095100Rank of 167
- USC96 · 5th
- Washington94 · 8th
- Maryland92 · 15th
- Oregon92 · 20th
- Rutgers91 · 38th
- Penn State90 · 46th
- UCLA90 · 46th
- Ohio State89 · 77th
- Indiana88 · 81st
- Purdue87 · 96th
- NorthwesternLanny and Sharon Martin Stadium87 · 97th
- NorthwesternRyan Field87 · 97th
- NorthwesternWrigley Field87 · 104th
- Michigan State86 · 114th
- Michigan86 · 120th
- Illinois86 · 123rd
- Iowa86 · 123rd
- Wisconsin86 · 128th
- Nebraska85 · 131st
- Minnesota84 · 147th
Big Ten, stadium by stadium
Weather score (out of 100) at each team’s home stadium. Lighter is milder, darker is rougher. Stadiums within about 2 points are effectively tied.
IdealComfortableMixedRoughHarsh
| Team | All | Sept. | Oct. | Nov. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USCLos Angeles Memorial Coliseum | 96 | 94 | 96 | 98 |
| WashingtonHusky Stadium | 94 | 97 | 96 | 90 |
| MarylandSECU Stadium | 92 | 91 | 97 | 89 |
| OregonAutzen Stadium | 92 | 94 | 96 | 87 |
| RutgersSHI Stadium | 91 | 92 | 95 | 85 |
| Penn StateBeaver Stadium | 90 | 96 | 95 | 82 |
| UCLARose Bowl | 90 | 83 | 91 | 96 |
| Ohio StateOhio Stadium | 89 | 89 | 94 | 83 |
| IndianaMemorial Stadium | 88 | 88 | 94 | 84 |
| PurdueRoss-Ade Stadium | 87 | 89 | 92 | 82 |
| NorthwesternLanny and Sharon Martin Stadium | 87 | 92 | 91 | 79 |
| NorthwesternRyan Field | 87 | 92 | 91 | 79 |
| NorthwesternWrigley Field | 87 | 92 | 92 | 79 |
| Michigan StateSpartan Stadium | 86 | 94 | 91 | 76 |
| MichiganMichigan Stadium | 86 | 93 | 90 | 76 |
| IllinoisMemorial Stadium | 86 | 89 | 91 | 78 |
| IowaKinnick Stadium | 86 | 88 | 92 | 78 |
| WisconsinCamp Randall Stadium | 85 | 94 | 90 | 74 |
| NebraskaMemorial Stadium | 85 | 85 | 92 | 80 |
| MinnesotaHuntington Bank Stadium | 84 | 92 | 90 | 70 |
Biggest change through the fall: Minnesota, from 92 in September to 70 in November.
How these scores are made
- The score is the Weather score, out of 100, for the 200 minutes starting at kickoff. It is averaged over every regular-season Saturday from Aug 29 to Dec 6, 2018 to 2025, and over noon, 3:30 and 7:30 starts.
- Readings come from an airport weather station near each stadium, not from the stands. Shade, delays, smoke and indoor roofs are not in it. A few stadiums use an airport farther than the nearest one, because the nearest has too little history; their cards say how far.
- The comfortable stretch of 60 to 75°F is our choice. Moving it changes the order, mostly among the hot places.
- Stadiums near the same airport share a score. Ranks come with a range, because the eight-season average carries about a point of year-to-year noise; a single season can swing 2 to 3 points.
- An airport reading can run warmer or cooler than the stands, and most for a stadium by a lake or the coast. Some airports missed a few kickoff times to outages, and those are left out, not filled in.
- A few airports have a rain gauge that does not report rain. Where a working gauge sits within 25 km, the rain comes from it; where none does, the score has no rain term. The card says which.
- It describes what these Saturdays were. It is not a forecast, and it says nothing about home advantage. Indoor stadiums are not scored.
Weather observations: National Weather Service, through the Iowa Environmental Mesonet at Iowa State University. Weather score version 2.2.