Florida weather by month
Fourteen stations, Key West to Pensacola — enough to see the state’s real gradient, which on winter nights puts the Panhandle some twenty degrees below the Keys.
Based on 14 weather stations.
The year across Florida
| Month | Highs | Nights | Wet days |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 63–76° | 43–66° | 3–7 |
| February | 66–78° | 46–67° | 2–6 |
| March | 71–81° | 52–69° | 2–6 |
| April | 76–85° | 58–73° | 3–5 |
| May | 84–90° | 66–76° | 4–7 |
| June | 88–91° | 72–79° | 6–13 |
| July | 90–92° | 73–81° | 7–13 |
| August | 90–92° | 74–81° | 8–14 |
| September | 87–90° | 71–79° | 5–13 |
| October | 81–87° | 61–77° | 3–9 |
| November | 72–81° | 50–72° | 2–5 |
| December | 65–78° | 45–68° | 2–7 |
A single row can hide a real spread — open a month to see it region by region.
Atlantic Coast
- Miami Miami runs on two settings: a long dry, breezy stretch the whole city plans its year around, and a green soaking summer that shows up like clockwork.
- Fort Lauderdale A steady tropical year with two moods: a long, dry, breezy winter and a green summer that takes its rain in short violent bursts.
- Daytona Beach A wide hard-sand beach with a full Florida summer at one end of the year and a genuinely cool, breezy winter at the other.
- St. Augustine Far enough north that winter actually bites and far enough south that summer arrives in full, St. Augustine gets four seasons in Florida proportions.
The Keys
- Key West Ringed by water on every side, Key West trades Florida's temperature swings for a steady salt-soaked warmth that mostly changes in how wet it gets.
Gulf Coast
- Tampa Tampa gets a real winter — cool, dry, and short — before handing the rest of the year over to a summer built on colliding sea breezes.
- Clearwater A barrier-island beach town with a dry, bracing winter and a summer that trades morning sun for reliable afternoon thunder.
- Sarasota Sarasota gets a crisp, dry winter that draws half the Midwest, then a summer of blazing beach mornings and thunderous afternoons.
- Fort Myers A river-and-Gulf town with a bone-dry, near-perfect winter and a wet season that arrives like a switch being thrown.
- Naples Naples runs on two calendars: a dry, golden winter the whole town is built around, and a soaking, near-empty summer.
Central Florida
- Orlando Two seasons, really: a long green summer that runs on thunderstorms, and a winter that other states would call spring.
The Panhandle
- Destin Emerald water and sugar-white sand with a coolness South Florida never sees — Destin gets a proper damp winter before its big Gulf summer.
- Panama City Beach A long white-sand strip with a big warm summer at one end of the year and a cool, damp winter at the other that catches first-timers off guard.
- Pensacola A Gulf Coast city with genuine seasons: a wet, chilly winter, a hot and stormy summer, and two beautiful shoulder stretches in between.