Record: March 2026 was the warmest on record in DFW

March 2026 was the warmest on record

FOX 4 Weather Meteorologist Kylie Capps explains why last month is now considered the warmest March on record for Dallas-Fort Worth.

DALLAS - This past March will go down in the record books as the warmest in history, with an average temperature of 67.6 degrees.

Warmest March

By the numbers:

According to the FOX 4 Weather team, March 2026 is now considered the warmest March on record.

The average temperature for the month was 67.6 degrees, a number calculated by averaging each afternoon’s high temperature with each morning’s low temperature.

Two record-breaking days helped push this month over the top. On March 15, there was a high temperature of 87 degrees, and then on March 22, temperatures reached 95 degrees. The high was still 80 the following day, but it wasn’t a record for the day.

What they're saying:

"I feel like we’ve been saying this every time but it doesn’t feel like this March has all that atypical, but clearly I’m wrong because it is the warmest one we’ve ever seen and we have over 100 years of records," said FOX 4 Weather Meteorologist Berkeley Taylor. 

"Average highs for this time of year are still in the low 70s, so when you see a streak of highs in the mid to upper 80s to mid 90s, even after that front last Sunday where we touched 80 degrees on Monday, that’s still seasonably warm," Meteorologist Kylie Capps added. 

Dig Deeper

Previously, the hottest March on record was in 1907 with an average of 66.7 degrees.