Cooling degree days (F) - Iowa (US) - NOAA - Daily
This series is part of the dataset: Heating and cooling degree days (NOAA)
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. In Iowa, cooling degree days were 0.0 degrees Fahrenheit on 12 February 2026, unchanged with respect to 11 February.
Sample. In this daily time series, there are 16,479 records overall. The span of time covered by the series is from January 1981 to February 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few descriptive statistics we computed on the entire sample: degree days had a mean of 2.2 degrees Fahrenheit; they recorded a maximum of 24.0 on 17 August 1988; they hit a trough of 0.0 on 1 January 1981.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Degrees Fahrenheit |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-10 | 0.0 |
| 2026-02-11 | 0.0 |
| 2026-02-12 | 0.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Cooling degree days |
| Country | Iowa (US) |
| Economic concept | Cooling needs |
| Data type | Estimate based on daily minimum and maximum temperatures |
| Deflation method | Not applicable |
| Seasonally adjusted | No |
| Rescaling | Population-weighted averages of weather-station observations |
| Frequency | Daily |
| Unit | Degrees Fahrenheit |
| Source | NOAA National Weather Service |
| Source type | Federal Administration |
| Data licence | Not copyrightable under U.S. law |
| Measure type | (max_daily_temperature + min_daily_temperature) / 2 - 65F |
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