Vero Beach, Florida climate: Normal weather by month, frost dates and records
Vero Beach's normal year runs from 52°F January nights to 91°F August afternoons, with 53.3 inches of precipitation a year. (NOAA 1991-2020 normals)
In metric: a yearly mean of 23.1°C, January lows of 11°C, August highs of 33°C, 1,353 mm of precipitation a year.
- NOAA stationVero Beach International Airport
- Station IDUSW00012843
- Location27.65°N 80.24°W
- Elevation28 ft (9 m)
- From the center9 miles
- Population17,556
On October 23, the normal high in Vero Beach is 84°F and the normal low 67°F, and the chance of measurable rain or snow is 36%.
Normals describe a typical year at the station, not a forecast. The National Weather Service forecast for Vero Beach.
- Jan 73° 52°
- Feb 76° 55°
- Mar 78° 58°
- Apr 82° 62°
- May 86° 68°
- Jun 89° 72°
- Jul 91° 73°
- Aug 91° 74°
- Sep 88° 73°
- Oct 85° 69°
- Nov 79° 61°
- Dec 75° 56°
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 Vero Beach each month?
August is the warmest month, with normal highs of 91°F; January the coldest, with normal lows of 52°F. The most precipitation falls in August (7.35 in), the least in February (2.20 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 | 73°F | 52°F | 62.8°F | 2.74 | 8 | <1 | 1 | 10 h 30 min |
| February | 76°F | 55°F | 65.0°F | 2.20 | 7 | <1 | <1 | 11 h 10 min |
| March | 78°F | 58°F | 68.0°F | 3.44 | 8 | 1 | <1 | 12 h |
| April | 82°F | 62°F | 72.1°F | 3.06 | 7 | 2 | <1 | 12 h 50 min |
| May | 86°F | 68°F | 76.7°F | 4.20 | 9 | 5 | <1 | 13 h 30 min |
| June | 89°F | 72°F | 80.6°F | 6.76 | 14 | 12 | <1 | 13 h 50 min |
| July | 91°F | 73°F | 81.9°F | 5.68 | 13 | 20 | <1 | 13 h 40 min |
| August | 91°F | 74°F | 82.1°F | 7.35 | 15 | 21 | <1 | 13 h 10 min |
| September | 88°F | 73°F | 80.9°F | 7.04 | 16 | 9 | <1 | 12 h 20 min |
| October | 85°F | 69°F | 76.9°F | 5.33 | 12 | 2 | <1 | 11 h 30 min |
| November | 79°F | 61°F | 70.4°F | 2.91 | 9 | <1 | <1 | 10 h 50 min |
| December | 75°F | 56°F | 65.7°F | 2.54 | 9 | <1 | <1 | 10 h 20 min |
| Year (annual) | 83°F | 65°F | 73.6°F | 53.25 | 125 | 72 | 2 |
The same normals in °C and millimetres
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 23°C | 11°C | 17.1°C | 70 mm |
| February | 24°C | 13°C | 18.3°C | 56 mm |
| March | 26°C | 14°C | 20.0°C | 87 mm |
| April | 28°C | 17°C | 22.3°C | 78 mm |
| May | 30°C | 20°C | 24.8°C | 107 mm |
| June | 32°C | 22°C | 27.0°C | 172 mm |
| July | 33°C | 23°C | 27.7°C | 144 mm |
| August | 33°C | 23°C | 27.8°C | 187 mm |
| September | 31°C | 23°C | 27.2°C | 179 mm |
| October | 29°C | 21°C | 24.9°C | 135 mm |
| November | 26°C | 16°C | 21.3°C | 74 mm |
| December | 24°C | 13°C | 18.7°C | 65 mm |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USW00012843; 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 Vero Beach?
Normal highs sit between 65°F and 85°F in January, February, March, April, October, November and December. Of those, April 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 USW00012843.
When is the last frost in Vero Beach?
A night at 32°F or colder comes in only 41% of years in Vero Beach (NOAA). NOAA's median date of the last spring frost is January 24 and of the first autumn frost January 13.
NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 365 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 365 days.
A hard freeze (28°F) comes after January 13 in half of springs and before January 12 in half of autumns.
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Vero Beach in zone 10a across its 2 ZIP code areas (10a in 32960, the largest). By the map's own method, the average of each year's coldest night over 1991-2020, Vero Beach's NOAA station is in zone 10a: the coldest night of a typical year reaches 33°F (30 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 USW00012843; 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.
What hardiness zone is each Vero Beach ZIP code in?
The USDA's 2023 map gives each ZIP code area one zone. Vero Beach's 2 ZIP code areas are all in zone 10a. Each ZIP's frost dates are in the frost tool.
Source: USDA 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map, ZIP listings: PRISM Group, Oregon State University, https://prism.oregonstate.edu, accessed October 8, 2026; ZIP areas in the place: Census Bureau 2020 ZCTA-to-place relationship file. A ZIP area counts when at least a tenth of its land (and 0.5 km²) lies in the place.
How hot and how cold does it get in Vero Beach?
In a normal year in Vero Beach, 72 days a year reach 90°F, 2 nights fall to 32°F or colder and 125 days bring measurable precipitation.
- Days at 90°F or more
- 72a 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
- 125a normal year
The highest temperature in Vero Beach's official record (kept by the National Weather Service since 1942) is 102°F, on June 22, 2009; the lowest is 21°F, on January 22, 1985.
The wettest calendar year on that record is 1982, with 81.74 in.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals, station USW00012843; records: ACIS (NOAA Regional Climate Centers), NWS threaded record VRBthr. Records use complete months only; a month missing more than three days is left out.
How sunny is Vero Beach?
Over a year 80% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around Vero Beach, 5.0 kWh per square metre a day. April is the sunniest month (84%) and June the cloudiest (77%).
| Month | Share of clear-sky sunshine | Sunshine, kWh/m² a day |
|---|---|---|
| January | 80% | 3.5 |
| February | 81% | 4.3 |
| March | 82% | 5.3 |
| April | 84% | 6.1 |
| May | 83% | 6.4 |
| June | 77% | 5.9 |
| July | 79% | 5.9 |
| August | 79% | 5.6 |
| September | 78% | 5.0 |
| October | 81% | 4.5 |
| November | 80% | 3.6 |
| December | 78% | 3.2 |
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 Vero Beach need?
A normal year in Vero Beach brings 400 heating degree days, 93% fewer than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 3,555 cooling degree days, 3.9 times the median (908). No month reaches 300 heating degree days. For gardens and crops, NOAA counts 8,646 growing degree days a year above 50°F.
| Month | Heating | Cooling |
|---|---|---|
| January | 137 | 68 |
| February | 85 | 86 |
| March | 48 | 143 |
| April | 10 | 225 |
| May | 0 | 365 |
| June | 0 | 466 |
| July | 0 | 524 |
| August | 0 | 530 |
| September | 0 | 477 |
| October | 3 | 372 |
| November | 27 | 187 |
| December | 89 | 112 |
| Year (annual) | 400 | 3,555 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USW00012843. 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 Vero Beach been warmer than normal lately?
2025 averaged 74.0°F, 0.5°F above the 1991-2020 normal of 73.6°F. 5 of the 5 complete years since 2021 ran warmer than the normal.
| Year | Mean | Against normal | Precip. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 74.9°F | +1.3°F | 40.53 |
| 2022 | 74.6°F | +1.0°F | 45.17 |
| 2023 | 75.6°F | +2.0°F | 55.30 |
| 2024 | 75.1°F | +1.5°F | 56.08 |
| 2025 | 74.0°F | +0.5°F | 44.18 |
Over 60 complete years from 1943 to 2025, the station's annual mean temperature rose at a fitted 2.5°F per century (+0.14°C per decade). A fitted rate summarizes the whole record; single years swing well above and below it.
Source: observed years: ACIS, station USW00012843; trend: NOAA GHCN-Monthly v4. A year counts only with all twelve months complete.
How does Vero Beach's climate compare?
Vero Beach is warmer than 66 of the other 105 places with their own NOAA record in Florida, and wetter than 47. Across the 7,247 U.S. stations with normals, its annual mean of 73.6°F is warmer than 98%.
In the Köppen classification computed from these normals, Vero Beach 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 Vero Beach share this climate record?
7 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.
- Winter Beach, FL4,995 people · 12 mi W
- Gifford, FL4,658 people · 11 mi W
- Indian River Shores, FL4,466 people · 9 mi NW
- Wabasso Beach, FL1,966 people · 12 mi NW
- Wabasso, FL1,648 people · 14 mi NW
- Orchid, FL545 people · 14 mi NW
- Windsor, FL293 people · 14 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 Vero Beach's other NOAA stations record?
One more NOAA station keeps 1991-2020 normals in or near Vero Beach. This page uses Vero Beach International Airport; the other differs by site and elevation:
| Station | From the center | Elevation | Year | Jan low | Jul high | Precip. | Snow | Last frost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vero Beach (4 mi SE) USC00089219 | 1 mi NW | 20 ft | 74.4°F | 54°F | 91°F | 56.4 | 0 | January 18 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 normals for each station. Last frost: the median last spring date of 32°F.
Questions about Vero Beach's climate
What is the coldest month in Vero Beach?
January, with a normal high of 73°F and a normal low of 52°F. The warmest is August (91°F by day, 74°F at night).
Does it snow in Vero Beach?
Rarely: NOAA's normal is no measurable snow a year.
What is the rainiest month in Vero Beach?
August, with 7.35 in of precipitation in a normal year; the driest is February with 2.20 in.
What plant hardiness zone is Vero Beach in?
The USDA's 2023 map puts Vero Beach in zone 10a across its 2 ZIP code areas (10a in 32960, the largest). By the same method at Vero Beach's NOAA station, the coldest night of a typical year reaches 33°F (30 years, 1991-2020): zone 10a.
Nearby and next
- Vero Beach in OctoberThis month day by day, its records and recent years
- Florida climateThe statewide normals and every place in the state
- Fort Pierce, FL14 miles from this station, 73.1°F a year
- Nettles Island, FL25 miles from this station, 75.2°F a year
- Palm Bay, FL30 miles from this station, 72.6°F a year
- Stuart, FL32 miles from this station, 75.3°F a year
- Compare two placesMonth by month, side by side
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