Punta Gorda, Florida climate: Normal weather by month, frost dates and records
Punta Gorda's normal year runs from 51°F January nights to 93°F August afternoons, with 53.0 inches of precipitation a year. (NOAA 1991-2020 normals)
In metric: a yearly mean of 23.5°C, January lows of 10°C, August highs of 34°C, 1,345 mm of precipitation a year.
- NOAA stationPunta Gorda Charlotte County Airport
- Station IDUSW00012812
- Location26.92°N 81.99°W
- Elevation25 ft (8 m)
- From the center5 miles
- Population20,416
On October 23, the normal high in Punta Gorda is 86°F and the normal low 65°F, and the chance of measurable rain or snow is 27%.
Normals describe a typical year at the station, not a forecast. The National Weather Service forecast for Punta Gorda.
- Jan 75° 51°
- Feb 78° 53°
- Mar 81° 56°
- Apr 86° 61°
- May 90° 66°
- Jun 92° 72°
- Jul 93° 74°
- Aug 93° 75°
- Sep 91° 73°
- Oct 87° 67°
- Nov 82° 59°
- Dec 78° 54°
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 Punta Gorda each month?
August is the warmest month, with normal highs of 93°F; January the coldest, with normal lows of 51°F. The most precipitation falls in June (9.24 in), the least in December (1.99 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 | 75°F | 51°F | 62.9°F | 2.32 | 9 | <1 | 1 | 10 h 40 min |
| February | 78°F | 53°F | 65.5°F | 2.47 | 8 | <1 | <1 | 11 h 10 min |
| March | 81°F | 56°F | 68.5°F | 2.28 | 8 | 1 | <1 | 12 h |
| April | 86°F | 61°F | 73.1°F | 2.23 | 7 | 4 | <1 | 12 h 50 min |
| May | 90°F | 66°F | 77.9°F | 3.26 | 9 | 16 | <1 | 13 h 30 min |
| June | 92°F | 72°F | 81.7°F | 9.24 | 17 | 23 | <1 | 13 h 50 min |
| July | 93°F | 74°F | 83.3°F | 8.06 | 19 | 25 | <1 | 13 h 40 min |
| August | 93°F | 75°F | 83.5°F | 9.11 | 20 | 26 | <1 | 13 h 10 min |
| September | 91°F | 73°F | 82.1°F | 6.87 | 16 | 21 | <1 | 12 h 20 min |
| October | 87°F | 67°F | 77.2°F | 3.02 | 9 | 8 | <1 | 11 h 30 min |
| November | 82°F | 59°F | 70.2°F | 2.12 | 7 | 1 | <1 | 10 h 50 min |
| December | 78°F | 54°F | 65.8°F | 1.99 | 9 | <1 | <1 | 10 h 30 min |
| Year (annual) | 85°F | 63°F | 74.3°F | 52.97 | 136 | 124 | 2 |
The same normals in °C and millimetres
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 24°C | 10°C | 17.2°C | 59 mm |
| February | 26°C | 12°C | 18.6°C | 63 mm |
| March | 27°C | 13°C | 20.3°C | 58 mm |
| April | 30°C | 16°C | 22.8°C | 57 mm |
| May | 32°C | 19°C | 25.5°C | 83 mm |
| June | 33°C | 22°C | 27.6°C | 235 mm |
| July | 34°C | 23°C | 28.5°C | 205 mm |
| August | 34°C | 24°C | 28.6°C | 231 mm |
| September | 33°C | 23°C | 27.8°C | 174 mm |
| October | 31°C | 19°C | 25.1°C | 77 mm |
| November | 28°C | 15°C | 21.2°C | 54 mm |
| December | 25°C | 12°C | 18.8°C | 51 mm |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USW00012812; 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 Punta Gorda?
Normal highs sit between 65°F and 85°F in January, February, March, November and December. Of those, November has the fewest days with rain (7).
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 USW00012812.
When is the last frost in Punta Gorda?
A night at 32°F or colder comes in only 50% of years in Punta Gorda (NOAA). NOAA's median date of the last spring frost is January 22 and of the first autumn frost January 10.
NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 364 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 365 days.
A hard freeze (28°F) comes after January 10 in half of springs and before January 10 in half of autumns.
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Punta Gorda in zone 10a in ZIP code 33950. By the map's own method, the average of each year's coldest night over 1991-2020, Punta Gorda's NOAA station is in zone 10a: the coldest night of a typical year reaches 31°F (22 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 USW00012812; 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 Punta Gorda?
In a normal year in Punta Gorda, 124 days a year reach 90°F, 2 nights fall to 32°F or colder and 136 days bring measurable precipitation.
- Days at 90°F or more
- 124a 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
- 136a normal year
The highest temperature in Punta Gorda's official record (kept by the National Weather Service since 1914) is 101°F, on May 30, 2024; the lowest is 22°F, on December 29, 1920.
The wettest calendar year on that record is 1947, with 88.10 in.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals, station USW00012812; records: ACIS (NOAA Regional Climate Centers), NWS threaded record PGDthr. Records use complete months only; a month missing more than three days is left out.
How sunny is Punta Gorda?
Over a year 81% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around Punta Gorda, 5.0 kWh per square metre a day. April is the sunniest month (86%) and June the cloudiest (76%).
| Month | Share of clear-sky sunshine | Sunshine, kWh/m² a day |
|---|---|---|
| January | 82% | 3.7 |
| February | 84% | 4.5 |
| March | 84% | 5.5 |
| April | 86% | 6.3 |
| May | 84% | 6.5 |
| June | 76% | 5.8 |
| July | 76% | 5.7 |
| August | 76% | 5.4 |
| September | 78% | 5.0 |
| October | 83% | 4.6 |
| November | 84% | 3.9 |
| December | 82% | 3.4 |
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 Punta Gorda need?
A normal year in Punta Gorda brings 355 heating degree days, 93% fewer than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 3,772 cooling degree days, 4.2 times the median (908). No month reaches 300 heating degree days. For gardens and crops, NOAA counts 8,903 growing degree days a year above 50°F.
| Month | Heating | Cooling |
|---|---|---|
| January | 131 | 66 |
| February | 73 | 88 |
| March | 37 | 145 |
| April | 5 | 250 |
| May | 0 | 398 |
| June | 0 | 503 |
| July | 0 | 567 |
| August | 0 | 574 |
| September | 0 | 511 |
| October | 3 | 379 |
| November | 22 | 180 |
| December | 85 | 112 |
| Year (annual) | 355 | 3,772 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USW00012812. 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 Punta Gorda been warmer than normal lately?
2025 averaged 75.1°F, 0.8°F above the 1991-2020 normal of 74.3°F. 5 of the 5 complete years since 2021 ran warmer than the normal.
| Year | Mean | Against normal | Precip. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 75.3°F | +1.0°F | 52.03 |
| 2022 | 75.3°F | +1.0°F | 63.77 |
| 2023 | 76.7°F | +2.4°F | 48.64 |
| 2024 | 76.9°F | +2.6°F | 50.84 |
| 2025 | 75.1°F | +0.8°F | 38.84 |
Source: observed years: ACIS, station USW00012812. A year counts only with all twelve months complete.
How does Punta Gorda's climate compare?
Punta Gorda is warmer than 76 of the other 105 places with their own NOAA record in Florida, and wetter than 44. Across the 7,247 U.S. stations with normals, its annual mean of 74.3°F is warmer than 98%.
In the Köppen classification computed from these normals, Punta Gorda 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 Punta Gorda 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.
- Port Charlotte, FLalso near: Venice (21 mi, 73.7°F a year); Myakka River State Park (21 mi, 73.6°F a year)64,971 people · 9 mi NW
- Rotonda, FL10,312 people · 18 mi W
- Charlotte Harbor, FL4,456 people · 5 mi NW
- Harbour Heights, FL4,184 people · 5 mi N
- Cleveland, FL2,690 people · 2 mi N
- Burnt Store Marina, FL2,201 people · 11 mi S
- Charlotte Park, FL1,803 people · 4 mi W
- Solana, FL953 people · 3 mi NW
Source: Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer (place centers) and Vintage 2024 population estimates. Distance and direction from the station to each place's center.
What do Punta Gorda's other NOAA stations record?
One more NOAA station keeps 1991-2020 normals in or near Punta Gorda. This page uses Punta Gorda Charlotte County Airport; the other differs by site and elevation:
| Station | From the center | Elevation | Year | Jan low | Jul high | Precip. | Snow | Last frost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Punta Gorda (4 mi ESE) USC00087397 | 4 mi E | 20 ft | 75.8°F | 53°F | 94°F | 54.0 | 0 | January 21 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 normals for each station. Last frost: the median last spring date of 32°F.
Questions about Punta Gorda's climate
What is the coldest month in Punta Gorda?
January, with a normal high of 75°F and a normal low of 51°F. The warmest is August (93°F by day, 75°F at night).
Does it snow in Punta Gorda?
Rarely. NOAA publishes no 1991-2020 snowfall normal for Punta Gorda's NOAA station; Punta Gorda's own co-op station Punta Gorda (4 mi ESE) records 0 inches of snow in a normal year.
What is the rainiest month in Punta Gorda?
June, with 9.24 in of precipitation in a normal year; the driest is December with 1.99 in.
What plant hardiness zone is Punta Gorda in?
The USDA's 2023 map puts Punta Gorda in zone 10a in ZIP code 33950. By the same method at Punta Gorda's NOAA station, the coldest night of a typical year reaches 31°F (22 years, 1991-2020): zone 10a.
Nearby and next
- Punta Gorda in OctoberThis month day by day, its records and recent years
- Florida climateThe statewide normals and every place in the state
- Arcadia, FL22 miles from this station, 72.2°F a year
- Fort Myers, FL24 miles from this station, 75.4°F a year
- Myakka River State Park, FL30 miles from this station, 73.6°F a year
- Fort Myers SW Florida Regional Airport, FL30 miles from this station, 75.0°F a year
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