AUSTIN (KXAN) — It was a toasty second weekend at the Austin City Limits Music Festival (ACL Fest) with temperatures in the 90s for all three days.
ACL Fest has taken place in October since 2012, which helped to take away some of the heat from the typically warmer month of September in Austin.
The hottest in-person October ACL Fest temperature was in 2019. Here’s what temperatures that first weekend looked like:
- Oct. 4, 2019: 96°
- Oct. 5, 2019: 97°
- Oct. 6, 2019: 99° (hottest October ACL day)
The second October weekend in 2019 was much cooler:
- Oct. 11, 2019: 82°
- Oct. 12, 2019: 65°
- Oct. 13, 2019: 82°
Over the six days, the average high for ACL Fest 2019 was 86.83°.
ACL Fest 2022 was hotter
Both weekends of ACL Fest in 2022 had well-above-average temperatures.
Weekend one:
- Oct. 7, 2022: 88°
- Oct. 8, 2022: 90°
- Oct. 9, 2022: 90°
Weekend two:
- Oct. 14, 2022: 91°
- Oct. 15, 2022: 95°
- Oct. 16, 2022: 93°
Over the six days, the average high was 91.2° making ACL Fest 2022 as a whole the hottest in-person October ACL Fest on record.
October ACL Fests that averaged hotter than 2019:
- October 2015: 89.3°
- October 2017: 87.5°
- October 2018: 88.8°
- October 2021: 89.6°
What about 2020?
ACL Fest in 2020 was not in person and only available online due to COVID-19. It was also only over one weekend in October and not two. However, of the three days ACL Fest 2020 was taking place virtually, it was hot.
- Oct. 9, 2020: 90°
- Oct. 10, 2020: 96°
- Oct. 11, 2020: 99° (tied for hottest ACL Fest day in October)
Over the three days, the average high for ACL Fest 2020 was 95° — technically the hottest October average ACL Fest temperature.
Of course, when ACL Fest previously occurred in September, we had some much hotter periods including once with highs reaching up to 107° in Austin.
