Settlement stations / KDFW

US · America/Chicago

Kalshi and IBKR settle Dallas temperature on KDFW

KDFW is Dallas-Fort Worth International, Dallas. Kalshi and IBKR ForecastEx settle temperature contracts here. Below: the resolution source each venue names, when the station reports, and how long a reading takes to reach the public feed.

This city settles on two different stations

Kalshi and IBKR ForecastEx use KDFW (Dallas-Fort Worth International). Polymarket settles the same city on KDAL (Dallas Love Field) instead. The two sites can report different temperatures at the same moment and land in different contract buckets on the same day, so a reading from one tells you nothing definitive about the other.

How it settles

VenueResolution sourceUnitBucketContracts
KalshiNWS Climatological Report (CLI), relayed by The Weather Company
Source code CLIDFW. The daily climatological report is compiled from the full one-minute record, so it can print a high that the hourly reports never showed. Its day runs in local standard time all year.		Fahrenheit2°F
Range contract		high · low
KXHIGHTDAL, KXLOWTDAL
IBKR ForecastEx
Also sold through Robinhood: same ticker, same settlement.		Weather Underground daily history table for this station
Source code KDFW. That table carries hourly METARs and SPECIs only, over the local clock day, and prints whole degrees rounded.		Fahrenheit1°F ladder
Exceeds X, one rung per degree		high · low
UHDFW, ULDFW

Reporting and delay

Regular reports:53:53 past each hour, UTC — 1 regular report per hour.
Median delay3 min 33 sFrom the observation time in the report to the public NOAA feed. 26 reports, measured 2026-09-17.
90th percentile3 min 40 sOne report in ten is at least this late. Worth knowing before you trust a quiet hour.
Coordinates32.897, -97.022Local civil time: America/Chicago

Questions

Which weather station settles Dallas temperature contracts?

Kalshi and IBKR ForecastEx settle Dallas on KDFW, Dallas-Fort Worth International. Polymarket settles the same city on KDAL, Dallas Love Field, which is a different site.

What is the resolution source for Kalshi Dallas temperature?

Kalshi names NWS Climatological Report (CLI), relayed by The Weather Company. Contracts settle in Fahrenheit, on 2-degree buckets. The daily climatological report is compiled from the full one-minute record, so it can print a high that the hourly reports never showed. Its day runs in local standard time all year.

What is the resolution source for IBKR ForecastEx Dallas temperature?

IBKR ForecastEx names Weather Underground daily history table for this station. Contracts settle in Fahrenheit, as a ladder of contracts one degree apart that pay when the day's reading passes the strike. That table carries hourly METARs and SPECIs only, over the local clock day, and prints whole degrees rounded. Robinhood resells this same contract, at the same ticker and settlement.

When does KDFW report?

:53 past each hour, UTC — 1 regular report per hour.

How long does a KDFW observation take to become public?

Measured over 26 hours on 2026-09-17, the median delay from the observation time in the report to its arrival on the public NOAA feed was 3 min 33 s, with a 90th percentile of 3 min 40 s across 26 reports. This moves with upstream conditions and is not a service level.

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