Enter the conditions outside. The verdict comes from the same two-axis engine as the PawWeather app — hot pavement and heat stress are different dangers, so both are checked and the worse one wins. It runs the app's full 24-hour pavement model, so the estimate includes the heat the surface stored earlier in the day, not just the sun hitting it right now.
One page cannot know your forecast history, so the times above are placed on a representative clear mid-July day in the middle of the US (about 35° N; sunrise 6:36 a.m., sunset 8:42 p.m.), with the temperature and sky you entered assumed to have held all day. Real nights cool down, which shrinks the evening gap. The app uses your actual hourly forecast instead.
Press the back of your hand on the pavement for 7 seconds. If you can't hold it, it's too hot for paws. These temperatures are estimates from air temperature, sun and sky — your street may differ.
After sunset, asphalt stays warmer than the air for hours — we checked 16 road sensors in Arizona at 11 p.m. and every single one was still warmer, by 6.8 °F on average. Those are real roads on a night that cooled off; hold the afternoon temperature steady, as this page does, and the model's evening gap is larger. The full data is here.
This page checks one moment on a stand-in day. The PawWeather app watches the whole day for your location and your dog — with pavement heat memory, hour-by-hour walk windows, and no account, no ads, no subscription.