Port Orange, Florida climate: NOAA's gridded normals for the city, beside the nearest station records
NOAA's gridded 1991-2020 normals put Port Orange's center at January lows of 50°F and July highs of 91°F, a yearly mean of 72.1°F and 52.3 inches of precipitation. No NOAA station keeps a record under the city's name. The nearest station record, Daytona Beach (5 miles NW, 31 ft), has January lows of 49°F and July highs of 90°F.
66,556 people (Census Bureau 2024). Distances and directions are from the city's center.
- Jan 69° 50°
- Feb 72° 52°
- Mar 76° 56°
- Apr 81° 61°
- May 86° 67°
- Jun 90° 72°
- Jul 91° 74°
- Aug 90° 74°
- Sep 88° 73°
- Oct 83° 67°
- Nov 76° 59°
- Dec 72° 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 Port Orange's center.
What is each month like in Port Orange?
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. | Daytona Beach high | Daytona Beach low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 69°F | 50°F | 59.5°F | 2.89 | 69°F | 49°F |
| February | 72°F | 52°F | 62.0°F | 2.46 | 72°F | 51°F |
| March | 76°F | 56°F | 65.8°F | 3.27 | 76°F | 55°F |
| April | 81°F | 61°F | 70.9°F | 2.49 | 80°F | 60°F |
| May | 86°F | 67°F | 76.4°F | 3.38 | 85°F | 66°F |
| June | 90°F | 72°F | 80.8°F | 7.27 | 89°F | 72°F |
| July | 91°F | 74°F | 82.5°F | 6.74 | 90°F | 74°F |
| August | 90°F | 74°F | 82.3°F | 7.07 | 90°F | 74°F |
| September | 88°F | 73°F | 80.3°F | 7.14 | 87°F | 73°F |
| October | 83°F | 67°F | 74.8°F | 4.53 | 82°F | 67°F |
| November | 76°F | 59°F | 67.4°F | 2.70 | 76°F | 58°F |
| December | 72°F | 53°F | 62.2°F | 2.41 | 72°F | 52°F |
In metric: a yearly mean of 22.3°C, January lows of 10°C, July highs of 33°C and 1,329 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 Port Orange 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daytona BeachDaytona Beach International Airport | 5 mi NW | 31 ft | 71.5°F | 49°F | 90°F | 51.3 | – | January 30 |
| New Smyrna BeachNew Smyrna Beach - Marine Discov | 8 mi SE | 16 ft | 72.0°F | 52°F | 88°F | 50.6 | – | January 28 |
| DeLandDeland (1 mi SSE) | 19 mi SW | 25 ft | 70.3°F | 45°F | 91°F | 55.5 | 0 | February 17 |
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 Port Orange?
NOAA's grid gives no snow, frost dates or records, so these come from the nearest station record, Daytona Beach (5 miles NW, 31 ft). NOAA publishes no snowfall normal for it; the nearest record that has one, DeLand (19 miles SW), gets 0 inches a year. The last spring frost (32°F) comes after January 30 in half of years and the first autumn frost before January 8. Its record high is 102°F (1944) and its record low 15°F (1985), on the National Weather Service's long record for the area (kept since 1923).
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Port Orange in zones 9b to 10a across its 3 ZIP code areas.
Over a year 78% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area (4.8 kWh per square metre a day, NASA POWER 2001-2020); April is the sunniest month (83%) and June the cloudiest (75%).
Daytona Beach'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 Port Orange; the nearest record's month pages have them.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 normals, station USW00012834; 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 Port Orange, ZIP code by ZIP code?
3 ZIP code areas lie wholly or partly in Port Orange. On NOAA's grid 32127 is the warmest (72.5°F a year) and 32128 the coolest (71.9°F), a spread of 0.6°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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32127 | 10a | 72.5°F | 51°F | 91°F | 52.5 | New Smyrna Beach (6 mi) | January 28 | January 9 |
| 32128 | 9b | 71.9°F | 49°F | 91°F | 52.2 | Daytona Beach (6 mi) | January 30 | January 8 |
| 32129 | 10a | 72.3°F | 50°F | 91°F | 52.5 | Daytona Beach (3 mi) | January 30 | January 8 |
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.