Stuart, 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 Stuart's primary NOAA station, STUART.
The climate verdict for Stuart
Warm-season cooling demand defines Stuart, Florida, running at more than twice its heating total. The NOAA normal records an annual average of 75°F. Its climate comfort score of 65/100 (good) lands mid-pack nationally, exceeding 56% of station-mapped location scores.
- 75°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 65/100
- comfort score, above 56% of station-mapped location scores
- 62.7"
- precipitation, annual total
Stuart: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00088620 · Stuart, FL 75°F mean · 62.7" precip
TEMP-HOT · RANK-WARM · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-WET · SWING-NARROW · COMF-MID · LOAD-COOL · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-HOT 75°F
- RANK-WARM #6,792
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Fort Myers Page…
- PRCP-WET 62.7"
- SWING-NARROW 18°F
- COMF-MID 65/100
- LOAD-COOL 4,044 CDD
- STN-1 USC00088620
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Fort Myers Page Fld, FL (+ 0.1 °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.
- Hot Everglades City, FL 76°F
- Near Naples, FL 76°F
- Stuart (this station) 75°F
- Cold Fort Myers SW F…, FL 75°F
- Near Fort Myers Page…, FL 75°F
Stuart 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 · Stuart
Stuart: 67/100 · grade C
Stuart publishes 4 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 2 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Stuart, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 65/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Snowfall burden | 0.0 inches/year | 90/100 · A |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 71 calendar days | 85/100 · A |
| Annual temperature balance | 75.3°F · 7.8° from 67.5°F | 75/100 · B |
| Precipitation balance | 62.7 in · 27.7 from 35 in | 6/100 · F |
Stuart · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Stuart stays in the tropical Köppen band: Af
Every month stays warm (coldest ≥18°C) and the driest month still averages ≥60 mm: tropical rainforest (Af). Class Af is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: tropical, specifically tropical rainforest.
- Köppen code
- Af
- Group
- Tropical
- Warmest month
- 83.2°F
- Coldest month
- 64.9°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 Stuart sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Stuart'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, Stuart sits in the warmer third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Top 4% wettest
- Stuart'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 Stuart is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Stuart compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Stuart's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
65 Top 44% score exceeds 56% 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%). This entry sits in this band.
- 70–80: 650 station-mapped locations (11%). Above this entry.
- 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
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 74°F (23°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 65°F (18°C) | 3.0" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| February | 76°F (25°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 67°F (20°C) | 2.6" | 0.0" | 0.2 | 0.1 |
| March | 78°F (26°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 3.8" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| April | 82°F (28°C) | 67°F (19°C) | 74°F (24°C) | 3.6" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 1.8 |
| May | 86°F (30°C) | 71°F (22°C) | 78°F (26°C) | 5.7" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 4.7 |
| June | 89°F (32°C) | 74°F (24°C) | 82°F (28°C) | 7.4" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 13.7 |
| July | 91°F (33°C) | 76°F (24°C) | 83°F (28°C) | 6.1" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 22.3 |
| August | 91°F (33°C) | 76°F (24°C) | 83°F (28°C) | 8.5" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 21.4 |
| September | 89°F (32°C) | 75°F (24°C) | 82°F (28°C) | 8.3" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 13.1 |
| October | 85°F (30°C) | 72°F (22°C) | 78°F (26°C) | 6.5" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 3.1 |
| November | 80°F (27°C) | 65°F (18°C) | 72°F (22°C) | 4.2" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| December | 76°F (24°C) | 60°F (16°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 3.2" | 0.0" | 0.1 | 0.2 |
The year, day by day
The year in Stuart runs from a mild 55°F around January 17 to 91°F at the peak near July 15, and the normal low never reaches freezing on any date in the record.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from June 22 through August 31, covering 71 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 55°F around January 17.
Where the wet dates fall
The likeliest wet date is September 7, when 54% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is March 2 at 25%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 139 wet dates a year.
The widest day
January 17 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 19°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Stuart.
Where Stuart Stands Nationally
This is one of the wettest normals climates ranked: about 63 inches of precipitation in a normal year, a total fewer than one station in ten surpasses.
Among the steadiest day-night climates ranked: even the widest normal daily swing holds to roughly 19°F.
Stuart 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
8.7 days with precipitation
7.7 days with precipitation
7.9 days with precipitation
8.7 days with precipitation
10.2 days with precipitation
14.1 days with precipitation
14.4 days with precipitation
16.2 days with precipitation
15.9 days with precipitation
13.5 days with precipitation
10.2 days with precipitation
10.2 days with precipitation
Stuart runs a summer-peaked wet season
35% of Stuart'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 August at 8.5", on an unusually narrow 18.3°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: August, September, June, taking 39% of the annual total between them.
- Driest month: February at 2.6".
- Winter share: 14% 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 Stuart, it arrives in quantity
62.7" of precipitation falls across only about 138 wet days here, averaging 0.46 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 138 a year, 38% of all days
- Average depth per wet day
- 0.46 inches
- Most wet days
- August, about 16
- Fewest wet days
- February, about 8
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.
Stuart'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 18
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
January 23
50% probability date
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
256
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
4,044
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside FL closest to Stuart 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 (75°F here).
- Mcallen, TX 76°F · 0.2°F off
- Palm Springs, CA 75°F · 0.2°F off
- Harlingen, TX 76°F · 0.3°F off
- Phoenix, AZ 76°F · 0.3°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (62.7" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Liberty, TX 62.8" · 0.1" off
- Buras, LA 62.8" · 0.1" off
- Kosciusko, MS 62.5" · 0.2" off
- Covington, LA 62.5" · 0.2" off
Data-derived climate profile
How Stuart's climate pattern fits together
cooling led · wet · low swing
Warm-season load persists through a relatively even calendar in Stuart. Cooling totals 4,044 degree days, more than double the 256 heating measure, and the 18.3°F seasonal range is compact rather than sharply divided.
Warm-season demand is paired with a wet annual normal: 62.7 inches of precipitation at Stuart. Recorded annual snowfall is negligible. The month-by-month bars distinguish a concentrated wet season from moisture spread across the calendar.
Stuart's 18.3°F seasonal spread is compact even though precipitation is abundant. July and January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar. The annual average is 75°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 Stuart. 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 Stuart'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 Stuart 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 Stuart's primary station: STUART (USC00088620). 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 1268875). Match rule for Stuart: 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 Stuart 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.