Super Bowl city weather highlights warming NFL season: The details

Posted by author February 8, 2025 NFL

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The Super Bowl will be in the comfortable and climate-controlled confines of the Caesars Superdome, negating the impacts of any weather on the game.

If you’re one of the many lucky enough to attend the big game, however, there will be some pleasant temperatures in the forecast. A high of 81 degrees on game day will only drop as low as 62 degrees, with a chance of scattered showers. In fact, the temperature will approach record levels.

This comes after New Orleans was the site of a significant snow storm on Jan. 21, with a record-breaking 8 inches of snow blanketing the city.

The NFL season is warming

While the United States just experienced its coldest January since 2011, it would have been perfect outdoor weather for football this weekend. Those chilly temperatures during the playoffs, including a frigid Buffalo Bills game in the divisional round, buck the warming trend that’s been found in all NFL cities since 1970.

An analysis from Climate Central found average temperatures during the NFL regular season, September through December, have warmed by 3.2 degrees for the Buffalo Bills. The cities with the most warming were Las Vegas, home of the Raiders, and Minneapolis, home of the Minnesota Vikings.

There’s also been noticeable warming in the cities of the two teams clashing in the Super Bowl, the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles.
Kansas City, Missouri has warmed by 2.2 degrees since 1970, while Philadelphia has warmed by 3.1 degrees in the same span.
The host city, New Orleans, has also seen a significant rise in temperature during the NFL season at 3.8 degrees.

— Steve Howe reports on weather, climate and the Great Lakes for the Democrat and Chronicle. An RIT graduate, he has covered myriad topics over the years, including public safety, local government, national politics and economic development in New York and Utah.