Cooling degree days (F) - South Dakota (US) - NOAA - Daily
This series is part of the dataset: Heating and cooling degree days (NOAA)
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. In South Dakota, cooling degree days were 0.0 degrees Fahrenheit on 13 November 2025, unchanged with respect to 12 November.
Sample. There are 16,388 data points in the daily time series presented in the graph above. The time period covered by the series is from January 1981 to November 2025.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few summary statistics we computed on the entire sample: degree days reached a trough of 0.0 degrees Fahrenheit on 1 January 1981; they recorded their maximum of 23.0 on 16 August 1988; they had a mean of 1.9.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Degrees Fahrenheit |
|---|---|
| 2025-11-11 | 0.0 |
| 2025-11-12 | 0.0 |
| 2025-11-13 | 0.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Cooling degree days |
| Country | South Dakota (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 |