Some seats, yes. For a typical July 1:10 PM day game at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium, roughly 37% of the seating bowl is shaded on average across the event. Shade grows through the late afternoon; by 6:00 PM about 68% of seats are out of the sun.
Check YOUR seat for YOUR event →Typical July afternoon highs at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium are around 89°F. Shaded seats make a real comfort difference.
No. David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium is open air.
David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium (Lawrence, KS) is oriented 174° from true north. We compute the sun's exact position for your date and start time and run it against the seating geometry, plus live schedules and an hour-by-hour forecast on the interactive site.
Interactive shade map for David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium · Satellite shadow view
Early September in Lawrence pairs 82°F afternoons with a sun that still behaves like midsummer. David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium is an open bowl of about 41,000 seats, and at an early-afternoon kickoff in high summer the sun stands 72 degrees up in the south-southeast, high enough that most of the stadium looks straight into it. Across a game starting around 1:10 PM, the building averages 37 percent shade, and where that shade lands is predictable.
Covered club sections 207 through 212 each hold about 50 percent shade through an afternoon game, roughly double what the open seats manage. The sunniest spots the engine found are scattered around the lower bowl: sections 107 and 130 average 29 percent shade, 106 sits at 28, and 131 at 27. Kansas Augusts run 85°F, so a noon kickoff early in the schedule means a genuinely hot lower-bowl sit, manageable with water, a hat, and sunscreen, but worth planning for rather than discovering in the second quarter. The tailgating fields and lots around the stadium are open sun too, which extends the exposure well before the gates.
Later kickoffs soften everything. From 6 PM onward, 68 percent of the stadium sits in shade; the midsummer sun sets at 8:45 PM in Lawrence and by 7 PM it's down to 17 degrees above the horizon in the west-northwest. A night game here is mostly a shade game with an hour of low, angled light at the start. The calendar does the rest: October afternoons in Lawrence average 73°F, arguably the best football weather in the conference, and November drops to 59°F, when the sunny sections become the desirable ones and the shade math flips from avoiding to seeking.
For August and September day games at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium, pay for the 200-level cover if comfort matters, or take the lower bowl with real sun protection and a refillable bottle. From October on, buy on sightlines and price and let the mild Kansas autumn take care of the rest. If you want the precise answer for your seat, this bowl's shade line moves noticeably between a noon and a 3:30 kickoff, the interactive shade map will draw it for your exact date and time.
Upcoming events at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium are ticketed on TixBit. Check the shade map first, then grab a seat on the shady side.