Punta Gorda, FL Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Average temperature and precipitation from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →, with a derived climate comfort score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Punta Gorda's primary NOAA station, PUNTA GORDA 4 ESE.
The climate verdict for Punta Gorda
Warm-season cooling demand defines Punta Gorda, Florida, running at more than twice its heating total. The NOAA normal records an annual average of 76°F. It scores 76/100 for climate comfort (good), putting it in the top third of station-mapped location scores and exceeding 69% of them.
- 76°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 76/100
- comfort score, above 69% of station-mapped location scores
- 54.0"
- yearly precipitation total
Punta Gorda: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00087397 · Punta Gorda, FL 76°F mean · 54.0" precip
TEMP-HOT · RANK-WARM · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-WET · SWING-NARROW · COMF-TOP · LOAD-COOL · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-HOT 76°F
- RANK-WARM #6,792
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Juno Beach
- PRCP-WET 54.0"
- SWING-NARROW 20°F
- COMF-TOP 76/100
- LOAD-COOL 4,204 CDD
- STN-1 USC00087397
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Juno Beach, FL (+ 0.2 °F mean)
Instrument codes from this station's NOAA 1991–2020 normals, mean temperature, corpus warmth rank, photo-finish peer station, precipitation band, seasonal swing, comfort composite, degree-day load, and field book, not a livability rating.
Mean-temperature neighbourhood
Nationwide NOAA normal poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every FL station list.
- Punta Gorda (this station) 76°F
- Hot Hollywood, FL 76°F
- Near Juno Beach, FL 76°F
- Near N Miami Beach, FL 76°F
- Near Everglades, FL 76°F
Punta Gorda sits in Florida, the #1 hottest U.S. state at 72.6°F statewide annual average - see all 50 hottest states ranked by NOAA normals
Climate Living Index · Punta Gorda
Punta Gorda: 56/100 · grade C
Punta Gorda publishes 4 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 2 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Punta Gorda, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 76/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Snowfall burden | 0.0 inches/year | 90/100 · A |
| Annual temperature balance | 75.8°F · 8.3° from 67.5°F | 74/100 · B |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 159 calendar days | 40/100 · D |
| Precipitation balance | 54.0 in · 19.0 from 35 in | 32/100 · F |
Punta Gorda · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Punta Gorda stays in the tropical Köppen band: Am
Year-round heat with a short dry season that still clears the monsoon precip floor: tropical monsoon (Am). Class Am is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: tropical, specifically tropical monsoon.
- Köppen code
- Am
- Group
- Tropical
- Warmest month
- 84.7°F
- Coldest month
- 64.6°F
Source: official public datasets monthly normals (1991–2020) at the city’s primary station. This is a station classification, not a mapped regional consensus.
National standing · cooling-led station
Where Punta Gorda sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Punta Gorda's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Top 1% warmest
- Among 6,861 stations, Punta Gorda sits in the warmer third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Top 12% wettest
- Punta Gorda's annual total ranks in the wetter third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 97%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Punta Gorda is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Punta Gorda compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Punta Gorda's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
76 Top 31% score exceeds 69% of 6,189 station-mapped location scores
- 0–10: 0 station-mapped locations (0%). Below this entry.
- 10–20: 0 station-mapped locations (0%). Below this entry.
- 20–30: 96 station-mapped locations (2%). Below this entry.
- 30–40: 280 station-mapped locations (5%). Below this entry.
- 40–50: 1,113 station-mapped locations (18%). Below this entry.
- 50–60: 1,329 station-mapped locations (21%). Below this entry.
- 60–70: 1,236 station-mapped locations (20%). Below this entry.
- 70–80: 650 station-mapped locations (11%). This entry sits in this band.
- 80–90: 921 station-mapped locations (15%). Above this entry.
- 90–100: 564 station-mapped locations (9%). Above this entry.
Source NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, PlainClimate comfort index · 1991–2020
Punta Gorda's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 44 complete annual observations from 1968 to 2020, PUNTA GORDA 4 ESE warmed at a fitted rate of 0.27°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Punta Gorda primary station fitted change +0.27 °C/decade
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 77°F (25°C) | 53°F (11°C) | 65°F (18°C) | 2.0" | 0.0" | 0.7 | 0.0 |
| February | 80°F (26°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 67°F (20°C) | 2.0" | 0.0" | 0.3 | 0.2 |
| March | 83°F (28°C) | 58°F (14°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 2.6" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 1.1 |
| April | 87°F (31°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 75°F (24°C) | 2.3" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 5.4 |
| May | 91°F (33°C) | 67°F (20°C) | 79°F (26°C) | 3.5" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 17.7 |
| June | 93°F (34°C) | 73°F (23°C) | 83°F (28°C) | 9.6" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 24.3 |
| July | 94°F (34°C) | 75°F (24°C) | 84°F (29°C) | 8.5" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 26.6 |
| August | 94°F (35°C) | 75°F (24°C) | 85°F (29°C) | 9.2" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 27.4 |
| September | 93°F (34°C) | 74°F (23°C) | 83°F (29°C) | 7.5" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 23.0 |
| October | 89°F (32°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 79°F (26°C) | 3.2" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 9.0 |
| November | 83°F (28°C) | 60°F (16°C) | 71°F (22°C) | 1.8" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.8 |
| December | 79°F (26°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 67°F (19°C) | 1.9" | 0.0" | 0.2 | 0.2 |
The year, day by day
The year in Punta Gorda runs from a mild 52°F around January 12 to 94°F at the peak near July 30, and the normal low never reaches freezing on any date in the record.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from May 4 through October 9, covering 159 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs January 1 to December 31.
This counts calendar dates whose 1991–2020 normal high reaches 90°F. It is a smaller number than the 90°F+ day counts in the monthly table above, which measure how often the threshold was actually crossed in a typical year. A date can average 88°F and still exceed 90°F in half of all years.
No freezing date
Not one calendar date in the 1991–2020 record carries a normal low at or below 32°F. The coldest normal low of the year is 52°F around January 12.
Where the wet dates fall
The likeliest wet date is August 15, when 51% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is November 13 at 15%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 102 wet dates a year.
The widest day
March 18 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 25°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Punta Gorda.
Where Punta Gorda Stands Nationally
Summers here run among the most heat-heavy normals calendars in the country: on about 159 days a year the normal daily high itself reaches 90°F — a count fewer than one station in ten exceeds.
The normal water year runs well above the national norm at roughly 54 inches.
Punta Gorda earns 2 nationally notable standings (outer quintiles) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations; only those extremes render.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
5.2 days with precipitation
4.4 days with precipitation
4.6 days with precipitation
5.2 days with precipitation
6.5 days with precipitation
14.2 days with precipitation
15.2 days with precipitation
16.2 days with precipitation
13.4 days with precipitation
7.0 days with precipitation
4.6 days with precipitation
4.9 days with precipitation
Punta Gorda runs a summer-peaked wet season
50% of Punta Gorda's yearly precipitation falls in June, July and August alone, against the 25% an evenly spread year would give those three months. The wettest month is June at 9.6", on an unusually narrow 20.1°F seasonal spread. Warm-season convection and, across the Southwest, the North American monsoon produce this shape: rain arrives in short heavy bursts during the hottest part of the year rather than as long cool-season soaking.
- Wettest three months: June, August, July, taking 50% of the annual total between them.
- Driest month: November at 1.8".
- Winter share: 11% falls in December, January and February.
Shares are computed from this station's own 1991-2020 monthly precipitation normals. A summer-peaked label means the June-August share reaches 35%; it describes timing across an average year, not any single season, and says nothing about how heavy an individual storm can be.
When it rains in Punta Gorda, it arrives in quantity
54.0" of precipitation falls across only about 101 wet days here, averaging 0.53 inches each. Fewer days carry more water: the year's total is delivered in comparatively heavy events rather than persistent damp.
- Days with measurable precipitation
- about 101 a year, 28% of all days
- Average depth per wet day
- 0.53 inches
- Most wet days
- August, about 16
- Fewest wet days
- February, about 4
A wet day is one recording at least 0.01 inches. These are 1991-2020 normals: they describe an average year, and a per-day average is not a forecast of any individual storm.
Punta Gorda's record shows no measurable snowfall
This station measured snowfall across the 1991-2020 period and recorded none: the annual normal is 0.0 inches. That is a measured zero rather than missing data, which is a meaningful distinction here , most stations in the database simply do not report snow at all, and those pages say nothing about it.
A thirty-year normal of zero describes the typical year at this station. It is not a claim that snow has never fallen in the area.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
January 14
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
January 21
50% probability date
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
260
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
4,204
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
August
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside FL closest to Punta Gorda on two NOAA annual-normal axes (mean temperature and annual precipitation). Chip rows use distinct link sets.
Closest by average temperature
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual mean temperature (76°F here).
- Kaneohe, HI 76°F · 0.1°F off
- Harlingen, TX 76°F · 0.2°F off
- Phoenix, AZ 76°F · 0.2°F off
- Mcallen, TX 76°F · 0.3°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (54.0" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Benton, LA 54.0" · 0.0" off
- Dickson, TN 54.1" · 0.0" off
- Scottsville, KY 54.0" · 0.1" off
- Fairfield, NC 54.1" · 0.1" off
Data-derived climate profile
How Punta Gorda's climate pattern fits together
cooling led · wet · low swing
Warm-season load persists through a relatively even calendar in Punta Gorda. Cooling totals 4,204 degree days, more than double the 260 heating measure, and the 20.1°F seasonal range is compact rather than sharply divided.
Warm-season demand is paired with a wet annual normal: 54.0 inches of precipitation at Punta Gorda. Recorded annual snowfall is negligible. The month-by-month bars distinguish a concentrated wet season from moisture spread across the calendar.
Punta Gorda's 20.1°F seasonal spread is compact even though precipitation is abundant. August and January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar. The annual average is 76°F. Temperature is relatively steady; the monthly rows show how rain and snow observations vary across the calendar.
A frost-free growing-season length is not available for Punta Gorda. That missing field is kept separate from the observed temperature and precipitation record rather than filled from a regional estimate.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Punta Gorda's primary station, so the summer figures are a thirty-year average rather than a ceiling: individual years have run hotter and will again. For Punta Gorda that means a descriptive range only — not an official NOAA classification and not a prediction for next summer.
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Data Sources
Data source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals v1.0.1 (1991-2020). All figures on this page are from Punta Gorda's primary station: PUNTA GORDA 4 ESE (USC00087397). For informational purposes only.
Place identity: U.S. Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer places. The 2024 Census Gazetteer identifies the exact name-and-state match as an incorporated place (GEOID 1259200). Match rule for Punta Gorda: exact normalized name + state only, no fuzzy expansion, so nearby differently spelled facilities stay unmatched.
On this page every temperature, precipitation, and derived score for Punta Gorda comes from its primary NOAA station record. No figure on this page is typed in by an editor - each value is rendered from NOAA 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 1991–2020 normals.