Palm Beach Gardens, Florida climate: Normal weather by month, frost dates and records
Palm Beach Gardens's normal year runs from 56°F January nights to 89°F August afternoons, with 66.0 inches of precipitation a year. (NOAA 1991-2020 normals)
In metric: a yearly mean of 23.6°C, January lows of 13°C, August highs of 32°C, 1,676 mm of precipitation a year.
- NOAA stationPalm Beach Gardens
- Station IDUSC00086764
- Location26.83°N 80.15°W
- Elevation20 ft (6 m)
- From the center2 miles
- Population63,284
On October 23, the normal high in Palm Beach Gardens is 84°F and the normal low 69°F, and the chance of measurable rain or snow is 32%.
Normals describe a typical year at the station, not a forecast. The National Weather Service forecast for Palm Beach Gardens.
- Jan 74° 56°
- Feb 75° 57°
- Mar 77° 60°
- Apr 81° 64°
- May 84° 69°
- Jun 88° 73°
- Jul 89° 75°
- Aug 89° 75°
- Sep 88° 75°
- Oct 85° 71°
- Nov 80° 65°
- Dec 75° 60°
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 Palm Beach Gardens each month?
August is the warmest month, with normal highs of 89°F; January the coldest, with normal lows of 56°F. The most precipitation falls in June (9.22 in), the least in February (2.64 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 | 74°F | 56°F | 64.5°F | 3.38 | 6 | <1 | <1 | 10 h 40 min |
| February | 75°F | 57°F | 66.1°F | 2.64 | 5 | <1 | <1 | 11 h 10 min |
| March | 77°F | 60°F | 68.8°F | 3.76 | 6 | <1 | <1 | 12 h |
| April | 81°F | 64°F | 72.9°F | 3.18 | 6 | 1 | <1 | 12 h 50 min |
| May | 84°F | 69°F | 76.5°F | 6.36 | 9 | 3 | <1 | 13 h 30 min |
| June | 88°F | 73°F | 80.6°F | 9.22 | 13 | 9 | <1 | 13 h 50 min |
| July | 89°F | 75°F | 82.1°F | 7.23 | 14 | 14 | <1 | 13 h 40 min |
| August | 89°F | 75°F | 82.4°F | 8.28 | 16 | 17 | <1 | 13 h 10 min |
| September | 88°F | 75°F | 81.5°F | 8.38 | 14 | 9 | <1 | 12 h 20 min |
| October | 85°F | 71°F | 77.6°F | 5.96 | 11 | 2 | <1 | 11 h 30 min |
| November | 80°F | 65°F | 72.2°F | 3.85 | 8 | <1 | <1 | 10 h 50 min |
| December | 75°F | 60°F | 67.5°F | 3.76 | 7 | <1 | <1 | 10 h 30 min |
| Year (annual) | 82°F | 67°F | 74.4°F | 66.00 | 113 | 55 | 1 |
The same normals in °C and millimetres
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 23°C | 13°C | 18.1°C | 86 mm |
| February | 24°C | 14°C | 18.9°C | 67 mm |
| March | 25°C | 16°C | 20.4°C | 96 mm |
| April | 27°C | 18°C | 22.7°C | 81 mm |
| May | 29°C | 21°C | 24.7°C | 162 mm |
| June | 31°C | 23°C | 27.0°C | 234 mm |
| July | 32°C | 24°C | 27.8°C | 184 mm |
| August | 32°C | 24°C | 28.0°C | 210 mm |
| September | 31°C | 24°C | 27.5°C | 213 mm |
| October | 29°C | 21°C | 25.3°C | 151 mm |
| November | 27°C | 18°C | 22.3°C | 98 mm |
| December | 24°C | 15°C | 19.7°C | 96 mm |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00086764; 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 Palm Beach Gardens?
Normal highs sit between 65°F and 85°F in January, February, March, April, May, October, November and December. Of those, February 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 USC00086764.
When is the last frost in Palm Beach Gardens?
A night at 32°F or colder comes in only 18% of years in Palm Beach Gardens (NOAA). NOAA's median date of the last spring frost is January 21 and of the first autumn frost January 15.
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 Palm Beach Gardens in zone 10b across its 4 ZIP code areas (10b in 33418, the largest). By the map's own method, the average of each year's coldest night over 1991-2020, Palm Beach Gardens's NOAA station is in zone 10b: the coldest night of a typical year reaches 37°F (16 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 USC00086764; 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 Palm Beach Gardens ZIP code in?
The USDA's 2023 map gives each ZIP code area one zone. Palm Beach Gardens's 4 ZIP code areas are all in zone 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 Palm Beach Gardens?
In a normal year in Palm Beach Gardens, 55 days a year reach 90°F, 1 night falls to 32°F or colder and 113 days bring measurable precipitation.
- Days at 90°F or more
- 55a 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
- 113a normal year
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals, station USC00086764.
How sunny is Palm Beach Gardens?
Over a year 78% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around Palm Beach Gardens, 4.8 kWh per square metre a day. April is the sunniest month (82%) and June the cloudiest (73%). Among the 459 U.S. places of 50,000 or more, that ranks tied 210th (with 32 others) in sunshine.
| Month | Share of clear-sky sunshine | Sunshine, kWh/m² a day |
|---|---|---|
| January | 78% | 3.5 |
| February | 79% | 4.3 |
| March | 81% | 5.3 |
| April | 82% | 6.0 |
| May | 79% | 6.1 |
| June | 73% | 5.5 |
| July | 76% | 5.7 |
| August | 76% | 5.4 |
| September | 75% | 4.8 |
| October | 79% | 4.4 |
| November | 80% | 3.7 |
| December | 78% | 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 Palm Beach Gardens need?
A normal year in Palm Beach Gardens brings 285 heating degree days, 95% fewer than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 3,721 cooling degree days, 4.1 times the median (908). No month reaches 300 heating degree days. For gardens and crops, NOAA counts 8,920 growing degree days a year above 50°F.
| Month | Heating | Cooling |
|---|---|---|
| January | 97 | 82 |
| February | 67 | 98 |
| March | 34 | 152 |
| April | 6 | 243 |
| May | 0 | 357 |
| June | 0 | 468 |
| July | 0 | 530 |
| August | 0 | 538 |
| September | 0 | 493 |
| October | 2 | 391 |
| November | 14 | 228 |
| December | 65 | 141 |
| Year (annual) | 285 | 3,721 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00086764. 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 Palm Beach Gardens been warmer than normal lately?
2023 averaged 75.7°F, 1.3°F above the 1991-2020 normal of 74.4°F. 2 of the 2 complete years since 2022 ran warmer than the normal.
| Year | Mean | Against normal | Precip. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 75.0°F | +0.6°F | 65.71 |
| 2023 | 75.7°F | +1.3°F | 57.96 |
Source: observed years: ACIS, station USC00086764. A year counts only with all twelve months complete.
How does Palm Beach Gardens's climate compare?
Palm Beach Gardens is warmer than 79 of the other 105 places with their own NOAA record in Florida, and wetter than 89. Across the 7,247 U.S. stations with normals, its annual mean of 74.4°F is warmer than 98%.
In the Köppen classification computed from these normals, Palm Beach Gardens is Af: tropical rainforest. 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 Palm Beach Gardens share this climate record?
5 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 Acreage, FL40,188 people · 9 mi SW
- Riviera Beach, FL39,620 people · 5 mi SE
- Jupiter Farms, FL13,394 people · 8 mi NW
- Westlake, FL7,664 people · 11 mi SW
- Loxahatchee Groves, FL3,559 people · 11 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 Palm Beach Gardens's climate
What is the coldest month in Palm Beach Gardens?
January, with a normal high of 74°F and a normal low of 56°F. The warmest is August (89°F by day, 75°F at night).
What is the rainiest month in Palm Beach Gardens?
June, with 9.22 in of precipitation in a normal year; the driest is February with 2.64 in.
What plant hardiness zone is Palm Beach Gardens in?
The USDA's 2023 map puts Palm Beach Gardens in zone 10b across its 4 ZIP code areas (10b in 33418, the largest). By the same method at Palm Beach Gardens's NOAA station, the coldest night of a typical year reaches 37°F (16 years, 1991-2020): zone 10b.
Nearby and next
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