As mentioned previously, albedo plays an important role in the pavement temperature. To examine the influence of the albedo on the pavement temperatures, the high (Tmax at 3pm) and low (Tmin at 6am) temperatures of the nine experimental pavements with different albedos were measured from fall 2011 through summer 2012 at Davis, California. The temperatures for one day of summer (7/1/2012) and winter (1/15/2012) are selected and plotted against their albedos in Fig. 13. It illustrates that the albedo has a large influence on the high temperature in both summer and winter. Under the same weather condition in summer, the high temperature of pavement with low albedo (0.08 for the asphalt) is about 15 °C (65 versus 50 °C) higher than that of pavement with high albedo (0.28 for concrete). In winter, this high temperature difference is approximately 8 °C (26 versus 18 °C). An increase in albedo of 0.1 can reduce the high surface temperature in summer by approximately 6 °C (i.e. −6 °C/+0.1 albedo, which is approximately the slope of the fitting line for Tmax_Summer in Fig. 13), and by approximately 3 °C (i.e. −3 °C/+0.1 albedo, which is approximately the slope of the fitting line for Tmax_Winter in Fig. 13) in winter.