Niceville, Florida climate: Normal weather by month, frost dates and records
Niceville's normal year runs from 38°F January nights to 90°F July afternoons, with 73.4 inches of precipitation a year. (NOAA 1991-2020 normals)
In metric: a yearly mean of 19.0°C, January lows of 3°C, July highs of 32°C, 1,863 mm of precipitation a year.
- NOAA stationNiceville
- Station IDUSC00086240
- Location30.53°N 86.49°W
- Elevation60 ft (18 m)
- Population17,919
On October 23, the normal high in Niceville is 78°F and the normal low 53°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 Niceville.
- Jan 61° 38°
- Feb 65° 41°
- Mar 70° 46°
- Apr 76° 53°
- May 84° 61°
- Jun 88° 69°
- Jul 90° 72°
- Aug 90° 72°
- Sep 87° 68°
- Oct 80° 57°
- Nov 71° 45°
- Dec 64° 41°
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 Niceville each month?
July is the warmest month, with normal highs of 90°F; January the coldest, with normal lows of 38°F. The most precipitation falls in August (9.21 in), the least in May (3.78 in).
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Wet days | 90°F days | Freezing nights | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 61°F | 38°F | 49.6°F | 5.86 | 10 | <1 | 13 | 10 h 20 min |
| February | 65°F | 41°F | 52.8°F | 5.25 | 10 | <1 | 8 | 11 h 10 min |
| March | 70°F | 46°F | 58.3°F | 5.35 | 8 | <1 | 3 | 12 h |
| April | 76°F | 53°F | 64.6°F | 5.99 | 8 | <1 | <1 | 12 h 50 min |
| May | 84°F | 61°F | 72.4°F | 3.78 | 7 | 2 | <1 | 13 h 40 min |
| June | 88°F | 69°F | 78.8°F | 6.79 | 13 | 10 | <1 | 14 h 10 min |
| July | 90°F | 72°F | 80.8°F | 8.91 | 15 | 16 | <1 | 14 h |
| August | 90°F | 72°F | 80.6°F | 9.21 | 15 | 17 | <1 | 13 h 20 min |
| September | 87°F | 68°F | 77.3°F | 6.97 | 10 | 8 | <1 | 12 h 20 min |
| October | 80°F | 57°F | 68.4°F | 4.60 | 6 | 1 | <1 | 11 h 30 min |
| November | 71°F | 45°F | 57.9°F | 4.97 | 7 | <1 | 3 | 10 h 40 min |
| December | 64°F | 41°F | 52.4°F | 5.68 | 11 | <1 | 9 | 10 h 10 min |
| Year (annual) | 77°F | 55°F | 66.2°F | 73.36 | 119 | 52 | 36 |
The same normals in °C and millimetres
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 16°C | 3°C | 9.8°C | 149 mm |
| February | 18°C | 5°C | 11.6°C | 133 mm |
| March | 21°C | 8°C | 14.6°C | 136 mm |
| April | 25°C | 12°C | 18.1°C | 152 mm |
| May | 29°C | 16°C | 22.4°C | 96 mm |
| June | 31°C | 21°C | 26.0°C | 172 mm |
| July | 32°C | 22°C | 27.1°C | 226 mm |
| August | 32°C | 22°C | 27.0°C | 234 mm |
| September | 31°C | 20°C | 25.2°C | 177 mm |
| October | 27°C | 14°C | 20.2°C | 117 mm |
| November | 22°C | 7°C | 14.4°C | 126 mm |
| December | 18°C | 5°C | 11.3°C | 144 mm |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00086240; 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 Niceville?
Normal highs sit between 65°F and 85°F in March, April, May, October and November. Of those, October 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 USC00086240.
When is the last frost in Niceville?
In Niceville, the last spring frost (32°F) comes after March 12 in half of years and after March 31 in one year in ten; the first autumn frost comes before November 19 in half of years and before November 3 in one year in ten.
Frost-free in half of yearsFrost in 1 to 9 years out of 10Frost most years
- Last spring frost, half of years after
- March 121 year in 10 after March 31; 9 in 10 after February 14
- First autumn frost, half of years before
- November 191 year in 10 before November 3; 9 in 10 before December 13
NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 253 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 286 days.
A hard freeze (28°F) comes after February 25 in half of springs and before December 5 in half of autumns.
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Niceville in zone 9a in ZIP code 32578. By the map's own method, the average of each year's coldest night over 1991-2020, Niceville's NOAA station is in zone 8b: the coldest night of a typical year reaches 20°F (20 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 USC00086240; 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.
How hot and how cold does it get in Niceville?
In a normal year in Niceville, 52 days a year reach 90°F (1 of them 100°F or more), 36 nights fall to 32°F or colder and 119 days bring measurable precipitation.
- Days at 90°F or more
- 52a normal year
- Days at 100°F or more
- 1a normal year
- Nights at 32°F or colder
- 36a normal year
- Days that stay below freezing
- fewer than 1high of 32°F or less
- Days with 0.01 inch of precipitation
- 119a normal year
The highest temperature in this station's record (since 1937) is 107°F, on July 15, 1980; the lowest is 4°F, on January 21, 1985.
The wettest calendar year on that record is 1994, with 100.93 in; the snowiest season is 1957–58, with 3.0 inches.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals, station USC00086240; records: ACIS (NOAA Regional Climate Centers), station USC00086240. Records use complete months only; a month missing more than three days is left out.
How sunny is Niceville?
Over a year 80% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around Niceville, 4.9 kWh per square metre a day. May is the sunniest month (86%) and February the cloudiest (73%).
| Month | Share of clear-sky sunshine | Sunshine, kWh/m² a day |
|---|---|---|
| January | 75% | 3.1 |
| February | 73% | 3.7 |
| March | 80% | 5.0 |
| April | 82% | 6.0 |
| May | 86% | 6.7 |
| June | 81% | 6.3 |
| July | 80% | 6.0 |
| August | 79% | 5.5 |
| September | 82% | 5.2 |
| October | 84% | 4.5 |
| November | 83% | 3.6 |
| December | 73% | 2.8 |
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 Niceville need?
A normal year in Niceville brings 1,837 heating degree days, 66% fewer than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 2,286 cooling degree days, 2.5 times the median (908). Three months need 300 or more heating degree days, a monthly mean of about 55°F or colder. For gardens and crops, NOAA counts 6,238 growing degree days a year above 50°F.
| Month | Heating | Cooling |
|---|---|---|
| January | 481 | 4 |
| February | 349 | 6 |
| March | 229 | 21 |
| April | 78 | 66 |
| May | 8 | 239 |
| June | 0 | 414 |
| July | 0 | 490 |
| August | 0 | 484 |
| September | 1 | 371 |
| October | 53 | 157 |
| November | 241 | 28 |
| December | 398 | 8 |
| Year (annual) | 1,837 | 2,286 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00086240. 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 Niceville been warmer than normal lately?
2025 averaged 67.4°F, 1.2°F above the 1991-2020 normal of 66.2°F. 5 of the 5 complete years since 2021 ran warmer than the normal.
| Year | Mean | Against normal | Precip. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 66.5°F | +0.3°F | 79.03 |
| 2022 | 66.7°F | +0.5°F | 64.94 |
| 2023 | 68.4°F | +2.2°F | 57.91 |
| 2024 | 68.2°F | +2.0°F | 62.37 |
| 2025 | 67.4°F | +1.2°F | 69.02 |
Over 45 complete years from 1942 to 2025, the station's annual mean temperature rose at a fitted 3.7°F per century (+0.21°C per decade). A fitted rate summarizes the whole record; single years swing well above and below it.
Source: observed years: ACIS, station USC00086240; trend: NOAA GHCN-Monthly v4. A year counts only with all twelve months complete.
How does Niceville's climate compare?
Niceville is warmer than 1 of the other 105 places with their own NOAA record in Florida, and wetter than 98. Across the 7,247 U.S. stations with normals, its annual mean of 66.2°F is warmer than 90%.
In the Köppen classification computed from these normals, Niceville 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 Niceville share this climate record?
2 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.
- Valparaiso, FL4,852 people · 3 mi SW
- Eglin AFB, FL2,975 people · 6 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 Niceville's climate
What is the coldest month in Niceville?
January, with a normal high of 61°F and a normal low of 38°F. The warmest is July (90°F by day, 72°F at night).
Does it snow in Niceville?
Rarely: NOAA's normal is no measurable snow a year.
What is the rainiest month in Niceville?
August, with 9.21 in of precipitation in a normal year; the driest is May with 3.78 in.
What plant hardiness zone is Niceville in?
The USDA's 2023 map puts Niceville in zone 9a in ZIP code 32578. By the same method at Niceville's NOAA station, the coldest night of a typical year reaches 20°F (20 years, 1991-2020): zone 8b.
How late can frost come in Niceville?
In half of years the last 32°F night comes after March 12; in one year in ten it comes after March 31. Waiting until March 31 leaves about a one-in-ten chance of a later frost.
Nearby and next
- Florida climateThe statewide normals and every place in the state
- Destin, FL9 miles from this station, 69.8°F a year
- Crestview, FL17 miles from this station, 67.0°F a year
- De Funiak Springs (1 mi E), FL27 miles from this station, 67.5°F a year
- Chactaw NOLF Milton, FL28 miles from this station, 68.1°F a year
- Compare two placesMonth by month, side by side
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