Heating 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, heating degree days stood at 3.0 degrees Fahrenheit on 17 September 2026, compared to 5.0 on the previous day.
Sample. There are 16,696 data points overall in the daily time series displayed in the figure above. The series covers the time span going from January 1981 to September 2026.
History. Check out some descriptive statistics we computed on the whole sample: degree days had a mean of 20.3 degrees Fahrenheit; they recorded a bottom of 0.0 on 2 May 1981; they hit a peak of 86.0 on 22 December 1989.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Degrees Fahrenheit |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 4.00000 |
| 2026-09-16 | 5.00000 |
| 2026-09-17 | 3.00000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Heating degree days |
| Country | South Dakota (US) |
| Economic concept | Heating 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 | 65F - (max_daily_temperature + min_daily_temperature) / 2 |
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