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 2.0 degrees Fahrenheit on 23 September 2025, compared to 1.0 on the previous day.
Sample. There are 16,337 observations overall in the daily time series displayed in the figure above. The time period covered by the series stretches from January 1981 to September 2025.
History. Here are some descriptive statistics we computed on the entire sample: degree days registered a minimum of 0.0 degrees Fahrenheit on 2 May 1981; they peaked at 86.0 on 22 December 1989; they had an average value of 20.3.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Degrees Fahrenheit |
|---|---|
| 2025-09-21 | 1.0 |
| 2025-09-22 | 1.0 |
| 2025-09-23 | 2.0 |
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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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