Is there shade at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater?

Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Selma: honest shade for a hot Texas night

Not every amphitheater shades as much as its roof suggests, and Verizon Wireless Amphitheater is a useful example. Across a typical 7 PM show about 76 percent of seats end up shaded, solid, but lower than the best-covered rooms, and worth knowing before you buy in the Selma heat.

Where the roof protects

The covered core does its job. Pit 1 and the front pavilion sections, 101, 201 and 202, all read about 93 percent shaded across the event, with 102 and 203 close behind near 92 percent. If you want to be out of the sun in this South Texas heat, those middle-and-front covered seats are the play.

Where the sun lingers

Coverage falls off toward the edges and the grass. Lawn 9 sits around 63 percent, and even covered wing sections 110 and 211 only reach about 57 percent. Earlier the whole venue is much sunnier, around 6 PM only about 52 percent is shaded, since the July sun still hangs at some height. It drops into the west-northwest near 285 degrees, about 19 degrees up at 7 PM, and sets at 8:34, so the late sets are the shaded ones.

Plan around the sun

For reliable shade, aim for the front and center covered sections; treat any wing or lawn seat as partly exposed until the sun is well down. Summer here is genuinely hot, so water and sunscreen earn their place. To read the shadow line for your date at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, open the interactive shade map and set the show time.