S Bay, 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 S Bay's primary NOAA station, S BAY 15 S.
The climate verdict for S Bay
Warm-season cooling demand defines S Bay, Florida, running at more than twice its heating total. The NOAA normal records an annual average of 74°F. August is the warmest month at 83°F and January the coldest at 64°F.
- 74°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 57.2"
- precipitation, annual total
S Bay: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00088368 · S Bay, FL 74°F mean · 57.2" precip
TEMP-HOT · RANK-WARM · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-WET · SWING-NARROW · COMF-UNK · LOAD-COOL · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-HOT 74°F
- RANK-WARM #6,724
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Belle Glade
- PRCP-WET 57.2"
- SWING-NARROW 19°F
- COMF-UNK Comfort n/a
- LOAD-COOL 3,622 CDD
- STN-1 USC00088368
- BOOK-FULL 5/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Belle Glade, FL (+ 0.3 °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.
- S Bay (this station) 74°F
- Cold La Belle, FL 74°F
- Hot Palm Beach Gard…, FL 74°F
- Near Belle Glade, FL 74°F
- Near Venice, FL 74°F
S Bay 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 · S Bay
S Bay: 67/100 · grade C
S Bay publishes 3 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 3 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for S Bay, not an official NOAA rating. Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 83 calendar days | 81/100 · B |
| Annual temperature balance | 74.0°F · 6.5° from 67.5°F | 80/100 · B |
| Precipitation balance | 57.2 in · 22.2 from 35 in | 21/100 · F |
S Bay · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method .
S Bay is a temperate Köppen climate: Cfa
Coldest-month mean 63.8°F and warmest-month mean 82.5°F place this station in temperate, no dry season, hot summer climates (Cfa). Class Cfa is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: temperate, specifically temperate, no dry season, hot summer.
- Köppen code
- Cfa
- Group
- Temperate
- Warmest month
- 82.5°F
- Coldest month
- 63.8°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 S Bay sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for S Bay's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Top 2% warmest
- Among 6,861 stations, S Bay sits in the warmer third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Top 8% wettest
- S Bay'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 S Bay is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 76°F (24°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 2.5" | 0.8 | 0.0 |
| February | 78°F (26°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 2.3" | 0.3 | 0.0 |
| March | 80°F (27°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 69°F (20°C) | 2.8" | 0.0 | 0.8 |
| April | 84°F (29°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 73°F (23°C) | 2.9" | 0.0 | 2.9 |
| May | 87°F (31°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 77°F (25°C) | 4.8" | 0.0 | 6.6 |
| June | 90°F (32°C) | 72°F (22°C) | 81°F (27°C) | 9.6" | 0.0 | 14.1 |
| July | 91°F (33°C) | 73°F (23°C) | 82°F (28°C) | 7.9" | 0.0 | 22.0 |
| August | 91°F (33°C) | 74°F (23°C) | 83°F (28°C) | 8.5" | 0.0 | 23.5 |
| September | 90°F (32°C) | 73°F (23°C) | 81°F (27°C) | 7.5" | 0.0 | 13.4 |
| October | 86°F (30°C) | 67°F (20°C) | 77°F (25°C) | 4.0" | 0.0 | 4.8 |
| November | 82°F (28°C) | 60°F (16°C) | 71°F (22°C) | 2.2" | 0.0 | 0.4 |
| December | 78°F (25°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 67°F (19°C) | 2.1" | 0.3 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
The year in S Bay runs from a mild 52°F around January 14 to 92°F at the peak near July 28, and the normal low never reaches freezing on any date in the record.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from June 20 through September 10, covering 83 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 14.
The widest day
January 26 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 24°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for S Bay.
Where S Bay Stands Nationally
This is one of the wettest normals climates ranked: about 57 inches of precipitation in a normal year, a total fewer than one station in ten surpasses.
Heat is a defining feature of the normals calendar — the normal daily high reaches 90°F on roughly 83 days a year, more than four out of five ranked stations record.
S Bay earns 2 nationally notable standings (outer quintiles) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations; only those extremes render.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
S Bay runs a summer-peaked wet season
46% of S Bay'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 18.7°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 46% of the annual total between them.
- Driest month: December at 2.1".
- Winter share: 12% 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.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
January 14
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
January 18
50% probability date
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
306
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
3,622
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
August
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside FL closest to S Bay 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 (74°F here).
- Hilo, HI 74°F · 0.0°F off
- Port Isabel, TX 74°F · 0.0°F off
- Del Rio, TX 74°F · 0.1°F off
- Ehrenberg, AZ 74°F · 0.1°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (57.2" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Macon, MS 57.2" · 0.0" off
- Union Springs, AL 57.2" · 0.0" off
- Dennard, AR 57.2" · 0.0" off
- Wallace, NC 57.2" · 0.0" off
Data-derived climate profile
How S Bay's climate pattern fits together
cooling led · wet · low swing
Warm-season load persists through a relatively even calendar in S Bay. Cooling totals 3,622 degree days, more than double the 306 heating measure, and the 18.7°F seasonal range is compact rather than sharply divided.
Warm-season demand is paired with a wet annual normal: 57.2 inches of precipitation at S Bay. Snowfall is not added to the interpretation because its annual value is missing. The month-by-month bars distinguish a concentrated wet season from moisture spread across the calendar.
S Bay's 18.7°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 74°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 S Bay. 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 S Bay'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 S Bay 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 S Bay's primary station: S BAY 15 S (USC00088368). For informational purposes only.
Place identity: U.S. Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer places. The conservative exact name-and-state crosswalk finds no Census place match, so PlainClimate treats this as a station-mapped location and does not claim it is a municipality. No exact Gazetteer row for S Bay; facility counts that depend on place identity are therefore an upper bound, not a municipal census.
On this page every temperature, precipitation, and derived score for S Bay 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.