Louisiana Weather

Right now in Louisiana
79°F
Clear

Observed at New Orleans (the largest city by population in Louisiana, used as a state-wide proxy). For per-city forecasts, see the city grid below.

Climate at a glance

Louisiana is largely one climate zone across 489 cities and towns. Predominantly humid subtropical.

The state spans roughly 3.8° of latitude (29.2° N to 33.0° N), from Grand Isle in the south to Junction City in the north. New Orleans is the largest city by population.

Microseason · September 21–25 · Southeast Subtropical

Thunder quiets the land

Microseason content for Louisiana is drawn from the Southeast Subtropical corpus (100% of the state's cities sit in this region).

Live wind & temperature across Louisiana

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Cities in Louisiana

8 cities with a weather forecast page, largest first

CityJuly normalPopulation
New Orleans82°F928,503
Baton Rouge82°F654,357
Shreveport84°F276,074
Lafayette83°F242,063
Lake Charles83°F153,662
Metairie84°F139,729
Houma83°F139,352
Village St. George82°F8,273

Our dataset lists 489 places in Louisiana; the 8 above have a page. For a smaller town, the nearest city above is the closest match.

The July figure is that city’s 1991–2020 normal mean temperature, rounded to the nearest degree — NOAA NCEI station normals from the nearest station where one covers the city, otherwise modelled normals (EC_Earth3P_HR via Open-Meteo); each city page names which. Populations come from SimpleMaps US Cities (CC BY 4.0). See methodology for data sources and editorial rules. Maintainer: Brian Tighe.