Leesburg, Florida climate: Normal weather by month, frost dates and records
Leesburg's normal year runs from 49°F January nights to 92°F August afternoons, with 43.8 inches of precipitation a year. (NOAA 1991-2020 normals)
In metric: a yearly mean of 22.7°C, January lows of 9°C, August highs of 33°C, 1,112 mm of precipitation a year.
- NOAA stationLeesburg Municipal Airport
- Station IDUSW00012819
- Location28.82°N 81.81°W
- Elevation77 ft (24 m)
- Population37,815
On October 23, the normal high in Leesburg is 83°F and the normal low 64°F, and the chance of measurable rain or snow is 24%.
Normals describe a typical year at the station, not a forecast. The National Weather Service forecast for Leesburg.
- Jan 70° 49°
- Feb 73° 52°
- Mar 77° 56°
- Apr 83° 62°
- May 88° 68°
- Jun 91° 73°
- Jul 91° 75°
- Aug 92° 75°
- Sep 90° 73°
- Oct 85° 66°
- Nov 77° 57°
- Dec 72° 52°
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 Leesburg each month?
August is the warmest month, with normal highs of 92°F; January the coldest, with normal lows of 49°F. The most precipitation falls in June (6.98 in), the least in November (1.76 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 | 70°F | 49°F | 59.4°F | 2.51 | 9 | <1 | 1 | 10 h 30 min |
| February | 73°F | 52°F | 62.6°F | 2.08 | 8 | <1 | 1 | 11 h 10 min |
| March | 77°F | 56°F | 66.6°F | 3.22 | 7 | <1 | <1 | 12 h |
| April | 83°F | 62°F | 72.2°F | 2.04 | 6 | 2 | <1 | 12 h 50 min |
| May | 88°F | 68°F | 77.9°F | 2.68 | 7 | 14 | <1 | 13 h 30 min |
| June | 91°F | 73°F | 81.9°F | 6.98 | 15 | 20 | <1 | 14 h |
| July | 91°F | 75°F | 83.0°F | 5.88 | 17 | 24 | <1 | 13 h 50 min |
| August | 92°F | 75°F | 83.3°F | 6.63 | 17 | 25 | <1 | 13 h 10 min |
| September | 90°F | 73°F | 81.4°F | 5.21 | 14 | 18 | <1 | 12 h 20 min |
| October | 85°F | 66°F | 75.3°F | 2.62 | 8 | 5 | <1 | 11 h 30 min |
| November | 77°F | 57°F | 67.2°F | 1.76 | 8 | <1 | <1 | 10 h 40 min |
| December | 72°F | 52°F | 62.2°F | 2.17 | 8 | <1 | <1 | 10 h 20 min |
| Year (annual) | 82°F | 63°F | 72.8°F | 43.78 | 122 | 108 | 2 |
The same normals in °C and millimetres
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 21°C | 9°C | 15.2°C | 64 mm |
| February | 23°C | 11°C | 17.0°C | 53 mm |
| March | 25°C | 13°C | 19.2°C | 82 mm |
| April | 28°C | 17°C | 22.3°C | 52 mm |
| May | 31°C | 20°C | 25.5°C | 68 mm |
| June | 33°C | 23°C | 27.7°C | 177 mm |
| July | 33°C | 24°C | 28.3°C | 149 mm |
| August | 33°C | 24°C | 28.5°C | 168 mm |
| September | 32°C | 23°C | 27.4°C | 132 mm |
| October | 29°C | 19°C | 24.1°C | 67 mm |
| November | 25°C | 14°C | 19.6°C | 45 mm |
| December | 22°C | 11°C | 16.8°C | 55 mm |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USW00012819; 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 Leesburg?
Normal highs sit between 65°F and 85°F in January, February, March, April, October, November and December. Of those, April has the fewest days with rain (6).
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 USW00012819.
When is the last frost in Leesburg?
In Leesburg, the last spring frost (32°F) comes after January 26 in half of years and after February 21 in one year in ten; the first autumn frost comes before January 9 in half of years and before December 17 in one year in ten. A night at 32°F or colder comes at all in 67% of years here (NOAA).
- Last spring frost, half of years after
- January 261 year in 10 after February 21; 9 in 10 after December 31
- First autumn frost, half of years before
- January 91 year in 10 before December 17; 9 in 10 before February 5
NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 346 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 365 days.
A hard freeze (28°F) comes after January 17 in half of springs and before January 13 in half of autumns.
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Leesburg in zone 9b across its 2 ZIP code areas (9b in 34748, the largest). By the map's own method, the average of each year's coldest night over 1991-2020, Leesburg's NOAA station is in zone 10a: the coldest night of a typical year reaches 30°F (24 complete years); the map interpolates between stations and terrain, so the station and the ZIP area can differ by half a zone.
Frost dates for every NOAA station in Florida · Frost dates by ZIP code
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals (frost probabilities), station USW00012819; 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 Leesburg ZIP code in?
The USDA's 2023 map gives each ZIP code area one zone. Leesburg's 2 ZIP code areas are all in zone 9b. 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 Leesburg?
In a normal year in Leesburg, 108 days a year reach 90°F, 2 nights fall to 32°F or colder and 122 days bring measurable precipitation.
- Days at 90°F or more
- 108a normal year
- Days at 100°F or more
- fewer than 1a normal year
- Nights at 32°F or colder
- 2a normal year
- Days that stay below freezing
- fewer than 1high of 32°F or less
- Days with 0.01 inch of precipitation
- 122a normal year
The highest temperature in Leesburg's official record (kept by the National Weather Service since 1958) is 101°F, on August 13, 1991; the lowest is 16°F, on January 22, 1985.
The wettest calendar year on that record is 1959, with 67.58 in.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals, station USW00012819; records: ACIS (NOAA Regional Climate Centers), NWS threaded record LEEthr. Records use complete months only; a month missing more than three days is left out.
How sunny is Leesburg?
Over a year 79% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around Leesburg, 4.9 kWh per square metre a day. April is the sunniest month (83%) and June the cloudiest (75%).
| Month | Share of clear-sky sunshine | Sunshine, kWh/m² a day |
|---|---|---|
| January | 79% | 3.5 |
| February | 77% | 4.1 |
| March | 81% | 5.2 |
| April | 83% | 6.1 |
| May | 83% | 6.5 |
| June | 75% | 5.8 |
| July | 76% | 5.7 |
| August | 76% | 5.4 |
| September | 77% | 4.9 |
| October | 81% | 4.4 |
| November | 81% | 3.6 |
| December | 79% | 3.1 |
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 Leesburg need?
A normal year in Leesburg brings 629 heating degree days, 88% fewer than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 3,482 cooling degree days, 3.8 times the median (908). No month reaches 300 heating degree days. For gardens and crops, NOAA counts 8,365 growing degree days a year above 50°F.
| Month | Heating | Cooling |
|---|---|---|
| January | 212 | 38 |
| February | 126 | 60 |
| March | 64 | 116 |
| April | 12 | 228 |
| May | 0 | 400 |
| June | 0 | 507 |
| July | 0 | 558 |
| August | 0 | 569 |
| September | 0 | 492 |
| October | 7 | 326 |
| November | 55 | 121 |
| December | 154 | 67 |
| Year (annual) | 629 | 3,482 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USW00012819. 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 Leesburg been warmer than normal lately?
2025 averaged 73.0°F, 0.2°F above the 1991-2020 normal of 72.8°F. 5 of the 5 complete years since 2021 ran warmer than the normal.
| Year | Mean | Against normal | Precip. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 74.2°F | +1.4°F | 50.37 |
| 2022 | 73.5°F | +0.7°F | 56.35 |
| 2023 | 74.2°F | +1.4°F | 40.96 |
| 2024 | 73.9°F | +1.1°F | 52.40 |
| 2025 | 73.0°F | +0.2°F | 38.29 |
Source: observed years: ACIS, station USW00012819. A year counts only with all twelve months complete.
How does Leesburg's climate compare?
Leesburg is warmer than 55 of the other 105 places with their own NOAA record in Florida, and wetter than 3. Across the 7,247 U.S. stations with normals, its annual mean of 72.8°F is warmer than 97%.
In the Köppen classification computed from these normals, Leesburg 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 Leesburg share this climate record?
8 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.
- The Villages, FLalso near: Lisbon (13 mi, 70.1°F a year); Bushnell (17 mi, 69.6°F a year)82,108 people · 12 mi NW
- Tavares, FL22,007 people · 5 mi SE
- Fruitland Park, FL8,962 people · 8 mi W
- Silver Lake, FL2,610 people · 1 mi NE
- Astatula, FL2,266 people · 9 mi SE
- Howey-in-the-Hills, FL1,693 people · 8 mi S
- Yalaha, FL1,343 people · 5 mi S
- Okahumpka, FL332 people · 7 mi SW
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 Leesburg's climate
What is the coldest month in Leesburg?
January, with a normal high of 70°F and a normal low of 49°F. The warmest is August (92°F by day, 75°F at night).
What is the rainiest month in Leesburg?
June, with 6.98 in of precipitation in a normal year; the driest is November with 1.76 in.
What plant hardiness zone is Leesburg in?
The USDA's 2023 map puts Leesburg in zone 9b across its 2 ZIP code areas (9b in 34748, the largest). By the same method at Leesburg's NOAA station, the coldest night of a typical year reaches 30°F (24 years, 1991-2020): zone 10a.
How late can frost come in Leesburg?
In half of years the last 32°F night comes after January 26; in one year in ten it comes after February 21. Waiting until February 21 leaves about a one-in-ten chance of a later frost.
Nearby and next
- Leesburg in OctoberThis month day by day, its records and recent years
- Florida climateThe statewide normals and every place in the state
- Lisbon, FL4 miles from this station, 70.1°F a year
- Mount Plymouth, FL17 miles from this station, 71.3°F a year
- Bushnell, FL20 miles from this station, 69.6°F a year
- Clermont, FL25 miles from this station, 73.6°F a year
- Compare two placesMonth by month, side by side
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