Pac-12 football weather by stadium
What a typical Saturday feels like at every Pac-12 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 Pac-12 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.
- 7580859095100Rank of 167
- San Diego StateSnapdragon Stadium94 · 10th
- San Diego StateStubHub Center94 · 11th
- Oregon State93 · 14th
- Fresno State88 · 92nd
- Boise State88 · 93rd
- Colorado State86 · 116th
- Washington State86 · 116th
- Utah State86 · 128th
- Texas State81 · 159th
Pac-12, 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. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Diego StateSnapdragon Stadium | 94 | 90 | 95 | 98 |
| San Diego StateStubHub Center | 94 | 90 | 95 | 98 |
| Oregon StateReser Stadium | 93 | 96 | 96 | 87 |
| Fresno StateValley Children's Stadium | 88 | 75 | 91 | 97 |
| Boise StateAlbertsons Stadium | 88 | 87 | 94 | 83 |
| Colorado StateCanvas Stadium | 86 | 87 | 92 | 80 |
| Washington StateGesa Field | 86 | 92 | 91 | 77 |
| Utah StateMaverik Stadium | 85 | 90 | 90 | 78 |
| Texas StateBobcat Stadium | 81 | 66 | 82 | 95 |
Biggest change through the fall: Texas State, from 66 in September to 95 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.