Cape Coral, Florida climate: NOAA's gridded normals for the city, beside the nearest station records
NOAA's gridded 1991-2020 normals put Cape Coral's center at January lows of 53°F and July highs of 92°F, a yearly mean of 74.7°F and 52.7 inches of precipitation. No NOAA station keeps a record under the city's name. The nearest station record, Fort Myers (9 miles SE, 15 ft), has January lows of 54°F and July highs of 92°F.
233,025 people (Census Bureau 2024). Distances and directions are from the city's center.
- Jan 75° 53°
- Feb 78° 55°
- Mar 81° 58°
- Apr 85° 63°
- May 89° 68°
- Jun 91° 73°
- Jul 92° 74°
- Aug 92° 74°
- Sep 90° 73°
- Oct 87° 68°
- Nov 81° 61°
- Dec 77° 56°
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 Cape Coral's center.
What is each month like in Cape Coral?
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. | Fort Myers high | Fort Myers low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 75°F | 53°F | 63.8°F | 2.36 | 75°F | 54°F |
| February | 78°F | 55°F | 66.4°F | 1.88 | 78°F | 57°F |
| March | 81°F | 58°F | 69.4°F | 2.20 | 81°F | 60°F |
| April | 85°F | 63°F | 73.8°F | 2.30 | 85°F | 64°F |
| May | 89°F | 68°F | 78.4°F | 3.65 | 90°F | 69°F |
| June | 91°F | 73°F | 81.8°F | 8.44 | 91°F | 74°F |
| July | 92°F | 74°F | 83.0°F | 8.18 | 92°F | 75°F |
| August | 92°F | 74°F | 83.3°F | 8.64 | 92°F | 75°F |
| September | 90°F | 73°F | 81.8°F | 7.95 | 90°F | 74°F |
| October | 87°F | 68°F | 77.4°F | 3.32 | 87°F | 69°F |
| November | 81°F | 61°F | 70.8°F | 1.88 | 81°F | 62°F |
| December | 77°F | 56°F | 66.6°F | 1.88 | 77°F | 57°F |
In metric: a yearly mean of 23.7°C, January lows of 12°C, July highs of 33°C and 1,338 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 Cape Coral 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fort MyersFort Myers Page Field Airport | 9 mi SE | 15 ft | 75.4°F | 54°F | 92°F | 57.4 | – | January 16 |
| Fort Myers SW Florida Regional Airport | 17 mi SE | 31 ft | 75.0°F | 54°F | 91°F | 53.4 | – | January 17 |
| Punta GordaPunta Gorda Charlotte County Airport | 19 mi N | 25 ft | 74.3°F | 51°F | 93°F | 53.0 | – | January 22 |
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 Cape Coral?
NOAA's grid gives no snow, frost dates or records, so these come from the nearest station record, Fort Myers (9 miles SE, 15 ft). NOAA publishes no snowfall normal for it; the nearest record that has one, Punta Gorda (4 mi ESE) (19 miles away), gets 0 inches a year. The last spring frost (32°F) comes after January 16 in half of years and the first autumn frost before January 13. Its record high is 103°F (1981) and its record low 24°F (1894), on the National Weather Service's long record for the area (kept since 1892).
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Cape Coral in zone 10b across its 6 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); April is the sunniest month (86%) and June the cloudiest (76%).
Fort Myers'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 Cape Coral; the nearest record's month pages have them.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 normals, station USW00012835; 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 Cape Coral, ZIP code by ZIP code?
6 ZIP code areas lie wholly or partly in Cape Coral. On NOAA's grid 33904 is the warmest (75.6°F a year) and 33909 the coolest (74.4°F), a spread of 1.2°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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33904 | 10b | 75.6°F | 55°F | 91°F | 52.8 | Fort Myers (5 mi) | January 16 | January 13 |
| 33909 | 10b | 74.4°F | 52°F | 92°F | 52.7 | Fort Myers (11 mi) | January 16 | January 13 |
| 33914 | 10b | 75.6°F | 55°F | 92°F | 52.6 | Fort Myers (10 mi) | January 16 | January 13 |
| 33990 | 10b | 75.4°F | 54°F | 92°F | 52.7 | Fort Myers (6 mi) | January 16 | January 13 |
| 33991 | 10b | 75.0°F | 53°F | 92°F | 52.6 | Fort Myers (10 mi) | January 16 | January 13 |
| 33993 | 10b | 75.4°F | 54°F | 92°F | 52.5 | Fort Myers (13 mi) | January 16 | January 13 |
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.