Brandon, Florida climate: NOAA's gridded normals for the city, beside the nearest station records
NOAA's gridded 1991-2020 normals put Brandon's center at January lows of 50°F and July highs of 91°F, a yearly mean of 72.9°F and 53.4 inches of precipitation. No NOAA station keeps a record under the city's name. The nearest station record, Plant City (11 miles NE, 110 ft), has January lows of 50°F and July highs of 94°F.
116,365 people (Census Bureau 2024). Distances and directions are from the city's center.
- Jan 71° 50°
- Feb 74° 53°
- Mar 78° 57°
- Apr 83° 61°
- May 88° 67°
- Jun 90° 72°
- Jul 91° 74°
- Aug 91° 74°
- Sep 90° 73°
- Oct 85° 66°
- Nov 78° 58°
- Dec 73° 53°
Each month: normal high (large) and low, °F. Fill: the month's normal mean, colder blue to hotter red.
The months above are NOAA's gridded normals at Brandon's center.
What is each month like in Brandon?
NOAA's grid estimates the normals every 5 km or so from the stations around each point, terrain included. It smooths between stations, so night lows at the heart of a large city can run warmer than the grid shows: at five big-city airports we compared, the grid's highs were within about 1°F of the station and its lows 1-6°F cooler. The nearest record's high and low are beside each month.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Plant City high | Plant City low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 71°F | 50°F | 60.7°F | 2.95 | 75°F | 50°F |
| February | 74°F | 53°F | 63.5°F | 2.30 | 78°F | 53°F |
| March | 78°F | 57°F | 67.1°F | 2.86 | 81°F | 56°F |
| April | 83°F | 61°F | 72.0°F | 2.65 | 86°F | 61°F |
| May | 88°F | 67°F | 77.3°F | 3.21 | 91°F | 67°F |
| June | 90°F | 72°F | 81.4°F | 8.35 | 93°F | 72°F |
| July | 91°F | 74°F | 82.4°F | 8.47 | 94°F | 73°F |
| August | 91°F | 74°F | 82.6°F | 9.00 | 94°F | 74°F |
| September | 90°F | 73°F | 81.2°F | 6.62 | 92°F | 72°F |
| October | 85°F | 66°F | 75.5°F | 2.75 | 87°F | 66°F |
| November | 78°F | 58°F | 68.0°F | 1.77 | 81°F | 58°F |
| December | 73°F | 53°F | 63.3°F | 2.44 | 77°F | 53°F |
In metric: a yearly mean of 22.7°C, January lows of 10°C, July highs of 33°C and 1,356 mm of precipitation a year.
Source: NOAA NCEI U.S. Monthly Gridded Climate Normals 1991-2020 (nClimGrid, accession 0245564); NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 station normals. The grid cell holding the city's Census center point.
What do the station records around Brandon say?
Each row is a NOAA station's own 1991-2020 normals, with the snow and frost dates the grid does not give. A record downhill or nearer the coast than the city can run warmer, one uphill cooler: compare the elevations.
| Record | Where | Elevation | Year | Jan low | Jul high | Precip. | Snow | Last frost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plant City | 11 mi NE | 110 ft | 74.3°F | 50°F | 94°F | 56.1 | 0 | January 30 |
| TampaTampa International Airport | 15 mi W | 19 ft | 74.5°F | 53°F | 91°F | 49.5 | 0 | January 20 |
| RuskinTampa Bay Area Weather Office | 17 mi S | 40 ft | 73.1°F | 51°F | 91°F | 53.6 | – | January 20 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals; place center and population: Census Bureau 2024. Last frost: the median last spring date of 32°F.
How much snow, how late a frost, what zone and how much sun in Brandon?
NOAA's grid gives no snow, frost dates or records, so these come from the nearest station record, Plant City (11 miles NE, 110 ft). It gets 0 inches of snow in a normal year. The last spring frost (32°F) comes after January 30 in half of years and the first autumn frost before January 6. Its record high is 104°F (1911) and its record low 15°F (1905) (kept since 1892).
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Brandon in zones 9b to 10a across its 5 ZIP code areas.
Over a year 81% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area (5.0 kWh per square metre a day, NASA POWER 2001-2020); May is the sunniest month (86%) and July the cloudiest (76%).
Plant City's page has its months, frost probabilities, records by month and recent years. NOAA's grid has monthly figures only, so there are no day-by-day month pages for Brandon; the nearest record's month pages have them.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 normals, station USC00087205; records: ACIS; USDA 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map, ZIP listings: PRISM Group, Oregon State University, https://prism.oregonstate.edu, accessed October 8, 2026; sunshine: NASA POWER.
How does the climate vary across Brandon, ZIP code by ZIP code?
5 ZIP code areas lie wholly or partly in Brandon. On NOAA's grid 33619 is the warmest (73.8°F a year) and 33584 the coolest (72.7°F), a spread of 1.1°F. Each row also names the nearest station record and its frost dates.
| ZIP code | Zone | Year | Jan low | Jul high | Precip. | Nearest record | Last frost | First frost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33510 | 9b | 72.9°F | 50°F | 91°F | 53.4 | Plant City (11 mi) | January 30 | January 6 |
| 33511 | 9b | 73.0°F | 51°F | 91°F | 53.2 | Plant City (12 mi) | January 30 | January 6 |
| 33584 | 9b | 72.7°F | 50°F | 91°F | 53.5 | Plant City (10 mi) | January 30 | January 6 |
| 33594 | 9b | 72.8°F | 50°F | 91°F | 54.0 | Plant City (8 mi) | January 30 | January 6 |
| 33619 | 10a | 73.8°F | 52°F | 91°F | 53.0 | Tampa (10 mi) | January 20 | January 12 |
Source: Census Bureau 2020 ZCTA-to-place relationship file and ZCTA centers; NOAA NCEI gridded and station normals, 1991-2020. A ZIP area counts when at least a tenth of its land (and 0.5 km²) is in the city; its figures are the grid cell at its center; frost dates are the nearest record's medians of 32°F.