Super Bowl Weather History & More

I thought I’d give some of you Super Bowl lovers some good ole weather history for the big game tonight. If you’re not interested in Super Bowls at all (I feel ya! ha), I have a story I just published at https://meteorologistmarkpro.com/ that you can hop over and check out for free this evening. The rest of you can check that story out, too, but don’t miss a big play because of my story! lol It’s a story about seeing my first tornado, which occurred 14 years ago this month while I was storm chasing.

Super Bowl weather

While many Super Bowls have had at least a trace amount of rain detected near the stadium, the only Super Bowl truly played in the rain was Super Bowl 41 in 2007. That game was played in Miami, and the Colts beat the Bears. The showers also helped set the mood for Prince’s halftime show, which is widely considered to be one of the best of all time.

Wind, of course, can be a bit tough to quantify, but some games stand out above the others.

Super Bowl 14, at the Rose Bowl in 1980, had gusts of up to 30 mph. Super Bowls 18 (Tampa) and 23 (Miami) both had gusts of around 25 mph. There was a gust of 29 mph just before kickoff of 2016’s Super Bowl 50 in San Francisco, but less wind during the actual game.

The rainiest Super Bowl was also a rather windy one. The 2007 Miami rainstorm came with gusts of 20 mph.

Super Bowl 6 was the coldest played outdoors. The game was held at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans on Jan. 16, 2972, when the kickoff temperature was 39 degrees and the high temperature was 43 degrees.

Since 2000, the coldest outdoor Super Bowl was Super Bowl 48 in 2014 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The kickoff temperature was 49 degrees, and the high was 55 degrees.

It has never snowed during a Super Bowl being played outdoors.

The most snowfall for any Super Bowl Sunday was in 2006, when the game was played inside Ford Field in Detroit. There was 1.1 inches of snowfall that day.

There was lots of snow in Arlington, Texas, the week before Super Bowl 45 in 2011, and an ice storm hit Atlanta on the day of Super Bowl 34 in 2000. Another near miss was Super Bowl 48. The Monday following the Super Bowl, about 8 inches of snow fell in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

Interestingly, a Super Bowl has never been postponed or delayed due to weather.

The only Super Bowl delay in history was the 34-minute stoppage caused by the Superdome power outage during Super Bowl 52 in 2013.

Most Super Bowls are held outdoors. Of the 55 Super Bowls, 20 have been played in domes.

Twenty of the first 27 Super Bowls were played outdoors. The first domed Super Bowl was Super Bowl 12 in the Superdome in 1978.

(A big thank you to Sportingnews.com for the info!)

Super Bowl weather history

If there are two temps it means the game was played inside and the second temp is the outside temps.

Game	Date	City, stadium (bold if indoors)	Kickoff temperature	Notes
1	Jan. 15, 1967	Los Angeles, L.A. Coliseum	72°
2	Jan. 14, 1968	Miami, Orange Bowl	68°
3	Jan. 12, 1969	Miami, Orange Bowl	73°	Light rain during game
4	Jan. 17, 1970	New Orleans, Tulane Stadium	61°	0.57 inches of gameday rain
5	Jan. 17, 1971	Miami, Orange Bowl	70°
6	Jan. 16, 1972	New Orleans, Tulane Stadium	39°
7	Jan. 14, 1973	Los Angeles, L.A. Coliseum	84°	Hottest Super Bowl
8	Jan. 13, 1974	Houston, Rice Stadium	50°
9	Jan. 12, 1975	New Orleans, Tulane Stadium	46°
10	Jan. 18, 1976	Miami, Orange Bowl	57°
11	Jan. 9, 1977	Pasadena, Calif., Rose Bowl	58°
12	Jan. 15, 1978	New Orleans, Superdome	70°
13	Jan. 21, 1979	Miami, Orange Bowl	71°	Light rain
14	Jan. 20, 1980	Pasadena, Rose Bowl	67°
15	Jan. 25, 1981	New Orleans, Superdome	72°
16	Jan. 24, 1982	Pontiac, Mich., Silverdome	72°
17	Jan. 30, 1983	Pasadena, Rose Bowl	61°
18	Jan. 22, 1984	Tampa, Tampa Stadium	68°	Wind gusts up to 25 mph
19	Jan. 20, 1985	Stanford, Calif., Stanford Stadium	53°
20	Jan. 26, 1986	New Orleans, Superdome	70°
21	Jan. 25, 1987	Pasadena, Rose Bowl	76°
22	Jan. 31, 1988	San Diego, Jack Murphy Stadium	61°
23	Jan. 22, 1989	Miami, Joe Robbie Stadium	76°	Wind gusts up to 25 mph
24	Jan. 28, 1990	New Orleans, Superdome	72°, 67°
25	Jan. 27, 1991	Tampa, Tampa Stadium	71°
26	Jan. 26, 1992	Minneapolis, Metrodome	73°, 26°
27	Jan. 31, 1993	Pasadena, Rose Bowl	61°
28	Jan. 30, 1994	Atlanta, Georgia Dome	72°, 44°
29	Jan. 29, 1995	Miami, Joe Robbie Stadium	76°
30	Jan. 28, 1996	Tempe, Ariz., Sun Devil Stadium	68°
31	Jan. 26, 1997	New Orleans, Superdome	67°
32	Jan. 25, 1998	San Diego, Qualcomm Stadium	67°
33	Jan. 31, 1999	Miami, Pro Player Stadium	73°
34	Jan. 30, 2000	Atlanta, Georgia Dome	72°, 34°	Ice storm
35	Jan. 28, 2001	Tampa, Raymond James Stadium	65°
36	Feb. 3, 2002	New Orleans, Superdome	72°, 56°
37	Jan. 26, 2003	San Diego, Qualcomm Stadium	81°
38	Feb. 1, 2004	Houston, Reliant Stadium	59°
39	Feb. 6, 2005	Jacksonville, Fla., Municipal Stadium	59°
40	Feb. 5, 2006	Detroit, Mich., Ford Field	68°, 30°	1.1 inches of gameday snowfall
41	Feb. 4, 2007	Miami Gardens, Dolphin Stadium	67°	Rainiest Super Bowl; 0.92 inches on gameday
42	Feb. 3, 2008	Glendale, Ariz., Univ. of Phoenix Stadium	70°, 61°
43	Feb. 1, 2009	Tampa, Raymond James Stadium	66°
44	Feb. 7, 2010	Miami Gardens, Sun Life Stadium	60°
45	Feb. 6, 2011	Arlington, Texas, Cowboys Stadium	52°	Snowstorm during week before game
46	Feb. 5, 2012	Indianapolis, Lucas Oil Stadium	44°
47	Feb. 3, 2013	New Orleans, Mercedes-Benz Superdome	71°
48	Feb. 2, 2014	East Rutherford, N.J., MetLife Stadium	49°
49	Feb. 1, 2015	Glendale, Univ. of Phoenix Stadium	66°
50	Feb. 7, 2016	Santa Clara, Calif., Levi’s Stadium	76°	29 mph gust before kickoff
51	Feb. 5, 2017	Houston, NRG Stadium	76°
52	Feb. 4, 2018	Minneapolis, U.S. Bank Stadium	70°, 2°	Coldest Super Bowl day
53 54 55	Feb. 3, 2019 Feb. 2, 2020 Feb. 7, 2021	Atlanta, Mercedes-Benz Stadium Hard Rock Stadium, Miami Raymond James Stadium, Tampa	64° 64° 66°