Some seats, yes. For a typical July 1:10 PM day game at Gaylord Family Oklahoma 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 67% of seats are out of the sun.
Check YOUR seat for YOUR event →Typical July afternoon highs at Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium are around 91°F. Shade selection genuinely matters for comfort and safety.
No. Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium is open air.
Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium (Norman, OK) is oriented 175° 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 Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium · Satellite shadow view
Summer does not leave Norman on schedule. Oklahoma afternoons average 91°F in July, hold at 90 through August, and are still at 84 for September home dates, and an early-afternoon kickoff at Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium puts the high-summer sun 75 degrees above the bowl, bearing south-southeast. Under that angle, our model measures only 37 percent of the stadium's 80,126 seats in shade across a typical day game.
The seats that beat the average are on the club level, under the overhang of the deck above. Sections 206 through 211 each come in around 50 percent shaded across a day game, the best sustained cover in the stadium. The seats that fall furthest below the average are in the lower bowl: sections 104, 105, and 132 measure about 29 percent shaded, and 131 brings up the rear at 27. For a September noon kickoff, tickets in those sections commit you to direct sun for the large majority of the game.
Elevation within a section matters almost as much as the section itself. A back row tucked under structure can spend twice as much of the game shaded as the front rail of the same level.
Ninety-degree kickoffs call for a plan, not just tolerance. Sunscreen before the tailgate, the lots around the stadium are open sky, and pregame hours in full sun add up fast. Bring or buy more water than you think you need, use the shaded concourses at halftime, and if anyone in your group runs hot, spend the seat budget on the 200 level rather than on proximity to the field. By mid-October, Norman's average high slides to 78, November hits 68, and the same exposed aluminum bench turns from griddle to prime seating.
Sunset in high summer comes at 8:44 PM in Norman, and by 7 PM the sun is 18 degrees up in the west-northwest. From 6 PM onward, 67 percent of Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium sits in shade. That makes a night kickoff dramatically more comfortable than a noon one, though the fairly late sunset means west-facing seats deal with low-angle glare deeper into the evening here than at stadiums further east in the league. By the second quarter of a 7:00 game, nearly everyone is in shade.
Sun position shifts week to week across the season, and kickoff times shift with television. The interactive shade map runs the actual calculation for your date, start time, and section. Check it before buying for any game through early October.
Upcoming events at Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium are ticketed on TixBit. Check the shade map first, then grab a seat on the shady side.