National Seashore·Texas·130,489 acres
Padre Island National Seashore
Forecast issued Nov 12, 5:26pm ET
We don’t forecast fall color here. Measured turning canopy covers 0.00% of this unit, below the 0.5% we forecast on. Our model reads latitude and elevation and will happily produce a date for anywhere; publishing one here would be a category error rather than an uncertain forecast, so we don’t.
That’s 6 days later than our model alone would say. This September has been running warm, which shifts peak color.
Plan this tripIf you can only come on certain days
Set the days you can be here. Everything under them answers for those days, not for peak.
Sunday, November 29 to Monday, November 30
You’ll find it at peak.
That's the day our forecast puts peak color here.
- What turns
- Bald Cypress, Sweetgum, Red Oak, Bigtooth Maple, Sycamore
What turns, and when
Bald Cypress, Sweetgum, Red Oak, Bigtooth Maple, Sycamore. Bald cypresses turn copper and russet along the Hill Country rivers, bigtooth maples in the Guadalupe Mountains produce pockets of scarlet, and sweetgums color the Piney Woods red and purple.
Across Texas as a whole: Late October in the Guadalupes, mid-November in the Hill Country, late November in East Texas.
Questions people ask about Padre Island National Seashore
- When is peak fall foliage at Padre Island National Seashore?
We don’t forecast fall color at Padre Island National Seashore. Measured turning canopy covers 0.00% of this unit, below the 0.5% we forecast on. Publishing a modeled date here would be a category error rather than an uncertain forecast.
This forecast is built from the species that stand here, their elevation and this September’s weather, and corrected in season by cameras, foresters and our own crew. Out here we score it against NASA's satellite record of when the canopy shuts down, read inside each unit’s own boundary: two dates in three land within 12 days of it. How this map is made