
Not surprisingly, athletic and other outdoor recreational activities are very popular in the DFW area. While it's pretty hot in the summer, temperatures otherwise are generally mild and the relative humidity is fairly low year-round. Average annual precipitation is about 33 inches. The Dallas Fort Worth area experiences an average of 79 rainy days annually and 39 days with the temperature below freezing. On an annual basis, the average temperature is 66 degrees. The coolest month is January, when average temperatures range from 35 to 55 degrees. The warmest months are July and August, with average high temperatures of 95 degrees and average lows of 74 degrees. Our abundant sunshine, about 235 sunny days a year, is especially enjoyable. We are fortunate here to have wonderful weather. While the largest cities in the DFW area are fairly densely populated with greater than 3,500 residents per square mile, the population density for the area overall is less than 800 residents per square mile. states, Massachusetts, Hawaii, New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware and Rhode Island, and about the same as the land area of the state of New Hampshire. Nearly 9,000 square miles of the DFW area is land, which is larger than the land areas of six U.S. The DFW metroplex is quite large, covering 9,286 square miles. The number of residents living in each of the other DFW metroplex counties was less than 1 million.

The Dallas County population was nearly 2.6 million and the population of Tarrant County was just over 2 million.

Census Bureau estimated the DFW metroplex population to be 7,233,323, which is more than all but three other U.S. The Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington Metropolitan Area (aka DFW metroplex, Dallas metroplex, DFW area, north Texas) encompasses thirteen north Texas counties, Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Hood, Hunt, Johnson, Kaufman, Parker, Rockwall, Somervell, Tarrant and Wise.
