Bradenton, Florida climate: Normal weather by month, frost dates and records
Bradenton's normal year runs from 52°F January nights to 92°F August afternoons, with 56.3 inches of precipitation a year. (NOAA 1991-2020 normals)
In metric: a yearly mean of 23.4°C, January lows of 11°C, August highs of 33°C, 1,430 mm of precipitation a year.
- NOAA stationBradenton (5 mi ESE)
- Station IDUSC00080945
- Location27.45°N 82.50°W
- Elevation20 ft (6 m)
- From the center5 miles
- Population58,184
On October 23, the normal high in Bradenton is 84°F and the normal low 66°F, and the chance of measurable rain or snow is 21%.
Normals describe a typical year at the station, not a forecast. The National Weather Service forecast for Bradenton.
- Jan 72° 52°
- Feb 75° 55°
- Mar 78° 58°
- Apr 83° 63°
- May 88° 69°
- Jun 91° 74°
- Jul 92° 75°
- Aug 92° 76°
- Sep 90° 74°
- Oct 85° 68°
- Nov 79° 60°
- Dec 74° 55°
Each month: normal high (large) and low, °F. Fill: the month's normal mean, colder blue to hotter red.
What is the weather like in Bradenton each month?
August is the warmest month, with normal highs of 92°F; January the coldest, with normal lows of 52°F. The most precipitation falls in August (10.07 in), the least in November (1.82 in).
Each month has its own page with the day-by-day normals, the month's records and its recent years:
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Wet days | 90°F days | Freezing nights | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 72°F | 52°F | 62.1°F | 2.76 | 8 | <1 | 1 | 10 h 30 min |
| February | 75°F | 55°F | 64.9°F | 1.99 | 6 | <1 | <1 | 11 h 10 min |
| March | 78°F | 58°F | 68.4°F | 3.11 | 6 | <1 | <1 | 12 h |
| April | 83°F | 63°F | 73.0°F | 2.53 | 6 | 1 | <1 | 12 h 50 min |
| May | 88°F | 69°F | 78.4°F | 3.49 | 7 | 13 | <1 | 13 h 30 min |
| June | 91°F | 74°F | 82.4°F | 9.03 | 14 | 23 | <1 | 13 h 50 min |
| July | 92°F | 75°F | 83.6°F | 8.91 | 17 | 27 | <1 | 13 h 40 min |
| August | 92°F | 76°F | 83.7°F | 10.07 | 18 | 26 | <1 | 13 h 10 min |
| September | 90°F | 74°F | 82.1°F | 7.43 | 14 | 20 | <1 | 12 h 20 min |
| October | 85°F | 68°F | 76.7°F | 2.88 | 8 | 5 | <1 | 11 h 30 min |
| November | 79°F | 60°F | 69.3°F | 1.82 | 5 | <1 | <1 | 10 h 50 min |
| December | 74°F | 55°F | 64.5°F | 2.26 | 6 | <1 | <1 | 10 h 30 min |
| Year (annual) | 83°F | 65°F | 74.1°F | 56.28 | 114 | 116 | 1 |
The same normals in °C and millimetres
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 22°C | 11°C | 16.7°C | 70 mm |
| February | 24°C | 13°C | 18.3°C | 51 mm |
| March | 26°C | 15°C | 20.2°C | 79 mm |
| April | 28°C | 17°C | 22.8°C | 64 mm |
| May | 31°C | 20°C | 25.8°C | 89 mm |
| June | 33°C | 23°C | 28.0°C | 229 mm |
| July | 33°C | 24°C | 28.7°C | 226 mm |
| August | 33°C | 24°C | 28.7°C | 256 mm |
| September | 32°C | 23°C | 27.8°C | 189 mm |
| October | 30°C | 20°C | 24.8°C | 73 mm |
| November | 26°C | 16°C | 20.7°C | 46 mm |
| December | 23°C | 13°C | 18.1°C | 57 mm |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00080945; annual normals. Wet days: 0.01 inch or more; 90°F days and freezing nights: NOAA's day counts. Daylight: sunrise to sunset on the 15th, computed from the latitude.
When is the best weather to visit Bradenton?
Normal highs sit between 65°F and 85°F in January, February, March, April, November and December. Of those, November has the fewest days with rain (5).
That is a measurement, not a recommendation: it counts the months whose normal afternoon high sits between 65°F and 85°F, where a light layer is enough by day.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00080945.
When is the last frost in Bradenton?
A night at 32°F or colder comes in only 31% of years in Bradenton (NOAA). NOAA's median date of the last spring frost is January 16 and of the first autumn frost January 11.
NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 365 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 365 days.
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Bradenton in zones 10a to 10b across its 3 ZIP code areas (10a in 34208, the largest). By the map's own method, the average of each year's coldest night over 1991-2020, Bradenton's NOAA station is in zone 10a: the coldest night of a typical year reaches 33°F (25 complete years).
Frost dates for every NOAA station in Florida · Frost dates by ZIP code
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals (frost probabilities), station USC00080945; USDA 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map, ZIP listings: PRISM Group, Oregon State University, https://prism.oregonstate.edu, accessed October 8, 2026; the station zone: ACIS daily lows, 1991-2020. A 10% date means one year in ten has a frost after it in spring or before it in autumn.
What hardiness zone is each Bradenton ZIP code in?
The USDA's 2023 map gives each ZIP code area one zone. Bradenton's 3 ZIP code areas run from zone 10a to 10b: 2 in 10a and 1 in 10b. Each ZIP's frost dates are in the frost tool.
Source: USDA 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map, ZIP listings: PRISM Group, Oregon State University, https://prism.oregonstate.edu, accessed October 8, 2026; ZIP areas in the place: Census Bureau 2020 ZCTA-to-place relationship file. A ZIP area counts when at least a tenth of its land (and 0.5 km²) lies in the place.
How hot and how cold does it get in Bradenton?
In a normal year in Bradenton, 116 days a year reach 90°F, 1 night falls to 32°F or colder and 114 days bring measurable precipitation.
- Days at 90°F or more
- 116a normal year
- Days at 100°F or more
- fewer than 1a normal year
- Nights at 32°F or colder
- 1a normal year
- Days that stay below freezing
- fewer than 1high of 32°F or less
- Days with 0.01 inch of precipitation
- 114a normal year
The highest temperature in this station's record (since 1965) is 101°F, on August 9, 2023; the lowest is 20°F, on December 26, 1983.
The wettest calendar year on that record is 1997, with 78.33 in.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals, station USC00080945; records: ACIS (NOAA Regional Climate Centers), station USC00080945. Records use complete months only; a month missing more than three days is left out.
How sunny is Bradenton?
Over a year 83% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around Bradenton, 5.1 kWh per square metre a day. May is the sunniest month (88%) and July the cloudiest (79%). Among the 459 U.S. places of 50,000 or more, that ranks tied 93rd (with 5 others) in sunshine.
| Month | Share of clear-sky sunshine | Sunshine, kWh/m² a day |
|---|---|---|
| January | 81% | 3.6 |
| February | 81% | 4.3 |
| March | 85% | 5.5 |
| April | 87% | 6.4 |
| May | 88% | 6.8 |
| June | 81% | 6.2 |
| July | 79% | 5.9 |
| August | 80% | 5.6 |
| September | 81% | 5.2 |
| October | 86% | 4.7 |
| November | 84% | 3.9 |
| December | 81% | 3.3 |
Source: NASA POWER solar climatology, 2001-2020 (CERES SYN1deg). Satellite-based, for the 1-degree cell (about 100 km across) around the station, so it describes the area rather than the airport.
How much heating and cooling does Bradenton need?
A normal year in Bradenton brings 437 heating degree days, 92% fewer than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 3,773 cooling degree days, 4.2 times the median (908). No month reaches 300 heating degree days. For gardens and crops, NOAA counts 8,831 growing degree days a year above 50°F.
| Month | Heating | Cooling |
|---|---|---|
| January | 149 | 59 |
| February | 87 | 84 |
| March | 43 | 148 |
| April | 8 | 248 |
| May | 0 | 414 |
| June | 0 | 522 |
| July | 0 | 577 |
| August | 0 | 578 |
| September | 0 | 513 |
| October | 4 | 368 |
| November | 37 | 168 |
| December | 110 | 94 |
| Year (annual) | 437 | 3,773 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00080945. A degree day is one degree of a day's mean temperature below 65°F (heating) or above it (cooling); utilities use them to estimate energy use.
Has Bradenton been warmer than normal lately?
2025 averaged 75.2°F, 1.1°F above the 1991-2020 normal of 74.1°F. 5 of the 5 complete years since 2021 ran warmer than the normal.
| Year | Mean | Against normal | Precip. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 75.1°F | +1.0°F | 52.45 |
| 2022 | 75.1°F | +1.0°F | 62.76 |
| 2023 | 76.3°F | +2.2°F | 44.42 |
| 2024 | 75.7°F | +1.6°F | 70.39 |
| 2025 | 75.2°F | +1.1°F | 38.10 |
Over 49 complete years from 1966 to 2025, the station's annual mean temperature rose at a fitted 4.9°F per century (+0.27°C per decade). A fitted rate summarizes the whole record; single years swing well above and below it.
Source: observed years: ACIS, station USC00080945; trend: NOAA GHCN-Monthly v4. A year counts only with all twelve months complete.
How does Bradenton's climate compare?
Bradenton is warmer than 74 of the other 105 places with their own NOAA record in Florida, and wetter than 72. Across the 7,247 U.S. stations with normals, its annual mean of 74.1°F is warmer than 98%.
In the Köppen classification computed from these normals, Bradenton is Cfa: temperate, no dry season, hot summer. What the classes mean.
Places with the most similar year elsewhere
Measured month by month on the normal high, low and precipitation, among places of 20,000 or more people in other states:
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 normals for every station PlainClimate covers. Similarity: the root-mean-square difference of the 36 monthly figures, precipitation weighted so an inch counts like 6°F.
Which places near Bradenton share this climate record?
6 places have no NOAA station with 1991-2020 normals of their own, and this station is the nearest full record. A place's own climate can differ from these figures, by several degrees where it sits much higher or lower than the station, nearer the coast, or inside a large city's heat; for the larger places the next nearest records are named with their yearly mean, so the spread around them is visible, and places of 50,000 or more have their own page with NOAA's gridded normals.
- Lakewood Ranch, FL39,434 people · 7 mi E
- Palmetto, FL13,682 people · 7 mi NW
- Memphis, FL10,626 people · 8 mi NW
- West Samoset, FL7,273 people · 4 mi NW
- Ellenton, FL5,454 people · 6 mi N
- Samoset, FL4,433 people · 3 mi NW
Source: Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer (place centers) and Vintage 2024 population estimates. Distance and direction from the station to each place's center.
Questions about Bradenton's climate
What is the coldest month in Bradenton?
January, with a normal high of 72°F and a normal low of 52°F. The warmest is August (92°F by day, 76°F at night).
Does it snow in Bradenton?
Rarely: NOAA's normal is no measurable snow a year.
What is the rainiest month in Bradenton?
August, with 10.07 in of precipitation in a normal year; the driest is November with 1.82 in.
What plant hardiness zone is Bradenton in?
The USDA's 2023 map puts Bradenton in zones 10a to 10b across its 3 ZIP code areas (10a in 34208, the largest). By the same method at Bradenton's NOAA station, the coldest night of a typical year reaches 33°F (25 years, 1991-2020): zone 10a.
Nearby and next
- Bradenton in OctoberThis month day by day, its records and recent years
- Florida climateThe statewide normals and every place in the state
- Sarasota, FL5 miles from this station, 74.1°F a year
- Parrish, FL15 miles from this station, 72.8°F a year
- Myakka River State Park, FL18 miles from this station, 73.6°F a year
- Ruskin, FL19 miles from this station, 73.1°F a year
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