West Palm Beach, Florida climate: Normal weather by month, frost dates and records
West Palm Beach's normal year runs from 58°F January nights to 90°F August afternoons, with 61.8 inches of precipitation a year. (NOAA 1991-2020 normals)
In metric: a yearly mean of 24.3°C, January lows of 14°C, August highs of 32°C, 1,568 mm of precipitation a year.
- NOAA stationDonald J. Trump International Airport
- Station IDUSW00012844
- Location26.68°N 80.10°W
- Elevation19 ft (6 m)
- From the center5 miles
- Population127,744
On October 23, the normal high in West Palm Beach is 84°F and the normal low 71°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 West Palm Beach.
- Jan 75° 58°
- Feb 77° 60°
- Mar 79° 63°
- Apr 82° 68°
- May 86° 72°
- Jun 88° 75°
- Jul 90° 76°
- Aug 90° 77°
- Sep 88° 76°
- Oct 85° 73°
- Nov 80° 66°
- Dec 77° 62°
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 West Palm Beach each month?
August is the warmest month, with normal highs of 90°F; January the coldest, with normal lows of 58°F. The most precipitation falls in August (8.68 in), the least in February (2.63 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 | 58°F | 66.3°F | 3.47 | 8 | <1 | <1 | 10 h 40 min |
| February | 77°F | 60°F | 68.4°F | 2.63 | 7 | <1 | <1 | 11 h 10 min |
| March | 79°F | 63°F | 71.1°F | 3.31 | 8 | 1 | <1 | 12 h |
| April | 82°F | 68°F | 74.9°F | 3.68 | 8 | 2 | <1 | 12 h 50 min |
| May | 86°F | 72°F | 78.7°F | 4.91 | 11 | 4 | <1 | 13 h 30 min |
| June | 88°F | 75°F | 81.7°F | 8.48 | 16 | 12 | <1 | 13 h 50 min |
| July | 90°F | 76°F | 83.1°F | 5.63 | 15 | 21 | <1 | 13 h 40 min |
| August | 90°F | 77°F | 83.2°F | 8.68 | 18 | 22 | <1 | 13 h 10 min |
| September | 88°F | 76°F | 81.9°F | 7.96 | 17 | 11 | <1 | 12 h 20 min |
| October | 85°F | 73°F | 78.7°F | 5.90 | 12 | 2 | <1 | 11 h 30 min |
| November | 80°F | 66°F | 73.0°F | 3.62 | 9 | <1 | <1 | 10 h 50 min |
| December | 77°F | 62°F | 69.0°F | 3.48 | 9 | <1 | <1 | 10 h 30 min |
| Year (annual) | 83°F | 69°F | 75.8°F | 61.75 | 137 | 74 | <1 |
The same normals in °C and millimetres
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 24°C | 14°C | 19.1°C | 88 mm |
| February | 25°C | 16°C | 20.2°C | 67 mm |
| March | 26°C | 17°C | 21.7°C | 84 mm |
| April | 28°C | 20°C | 23.8°C | 93 mm |
| May | 30°C | 22°C | 25.9°C | 125 mm |
| June | 31°C | 24°C | 27.6°C | 215 mm |
| July | 32°C | 24°C | 28.4°C | 143 mm |
| August | 32°C | 25°C | 28.4°C | 220 mm |
| September | 31°C | 24°C | 27.7°C | 202 mm |
| October | 29°C | 23°C | 25.9°C | 150 mm |
| November | 27°C | 19°C | 22.8°C | 92 mm |
| December | 25°C | 16°C | 20.6°C | 88 mm |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USW00012844; 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 West Palm Beach?
Normal highs sit between 65°F and 85°F in January, February, March, April, October, November and December. Of those, February 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 USW00012844.
What hardiness zone is each West Palm Beach ZIP code in?
The USDA's 2023 map gives each ZIP code area one zone. West Palm Beach's 7 ZIP code areas are all in zone 10b. 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 West Palm Beach?
In a normal year in West Palm Beach, 74 days a year reach 90°F, nights almost never fall to freezing and 137 days bring measurable precipitation.
- Days at 90°F or more
- 74a normal year
- Days at 100°F or more
- fewer than 1a normal year
- Nights at 32°F or colder
- fewer than 1a normal year
- Days that stay below freezing
- fewer than 1high of 32°F or less
- Days with 0.01 inch of precipitation
- 137a normal year
The highest temperature in West Palm Beach's official record (kept by the National Weather Service since 1888) is 101°F, on July 21, 1942; the lowest is 24°F, on December 29, 1894.
The wettest calendar year on that record is 1947, with 108.63 in.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals, station USW00012844; records: ACIS (NOAA Regional Climate Centers), NWS threaded record PBIthr. Records use complete months only; a month missing more than three days is left out.
How humid and windy is West Palm Beach, and how clear are its skies?
The summer (June-August) dew point averages 74°F. The muggiest month is August, with an average dew point of 74°F, above the 65°F at which most people call the air sticky; the driest air comes in January (57°F). March is the windiest month (10.6 mph on average), and December has the most clear or nearly clear hours (40%).
| Month | Dew point | Humidity | Afternoon humidity | Wind | Clear or few clouds | Overcast |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 57°F | 72% | 57% | 9.6 mph | 33% | 17% |
| February | 60°F | 70% | 55% | 10.4 mph | 36% | 12% |
| March | 62°F | 67% | 54% | 10.6 mph | 33% | 9% |
| April | 65°F | 69% | 58% | 10.5 mph | 36% | 7% |
| May | 71°F | 74% | 64% | 8.9 mph | 31% | 10% |
| June | 74°F | 76% | 66% | 7.6 mph | 30% | 9% |
| July | 74°F | 76% | 65% | 7.3 mph | 36% | 4% |
| August | 74°F | 77% | 68% | 7.9 mph | 27% | 7% |
| September | 73°F | 76% | 67% | 8.8 mph | 23% | 9% |
| October | 66°F | 72% | 61% | 10.1 mph | 32% | 11% |
| November | 61°F | 72% | 60% | 9.5 mph | 30% | 11% |
| December | 59°F | 74% | 60% | 9.5 mph | 40% | 13% |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 hourly normals, station USW00012844. Monthly averages of all hours; afternoon humidity at 3 p.m. local standard time; sky as the share of hours NOAA's observations rate clear or few clouds (a dash where NOAA publishes no sky value).
How sunny is West Palm Beach?
Over a year 78% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around West Palm Beach, 4.8 kWh per square metre a day. April is the sunniest month (82%) and June the cloudiest (73%). Among the 459 U.S. places of 50,000 or more, that ranks tied 210th (with 32 others) in sunshine.
| Month | Share of clear-sky sunshine | Sunshine, kWh/m² a day |
|---|---|---|
| January | 78% | 3.5 |
| February | 79% | 4.3 |
| March | 81% | 5.3 |
| April | 82% | 6.0 |
| May | 79% | 6.1 |
| June | 73% | 5.5 |
| July | 76% | 5.7 |
| August | 76% | 5.4 |
| September | 75% | 4.8 |
| October | 79% | 4.4 |
| November | 80% | 3.7 |
| December | 78% | 3.3 |
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 West Palm Beach need?
A normal year in West Palm Beach brings 202 heating degree days, 96% fewer than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 4,166 cooling degree days, 4.6 times the median (908). No month reaches 300 heating degree days. For gardens and crops, NOAA counts 9,443 growing degree days a year above 50°F.
| Month | Heating | Cooling |
|---|---|---|
| January | 76 | 116 |
| February | 42 | 138 |
| March | 21 | 210 |
| April | 3 | 298 |
| May | 0 | 425 |
| June | 0 | 500 |
| July | 0 | 560 |
| August | 0 | 564 |
| September | 0 | 507 |
| October | 1 | 424 |
| November | 10 | 252 |
| December | 49 | 173 |
| Year (annual) | 202 | 4,166 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USW00012844. 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 West Palm Beach been warmer than normal lately?
2025 averaged 77.5°F, 1.7°F above the 1991-2020 normal of 75.8°F. 5 of the 5 complete years since 2021 ran warmer than the normal.
| Year | Mean | Against normal | Precip. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 77.4°F | +1.6°F | 54.14 |
| 2022 | 77.7°F | +1.9°F | 53.48 |
| 2023 | 78.0°F | +2.2°F | 73.97 |
| 2024 | 77.6°F | +1.8°F | 63.26 |
| 2025 | 77.5°F | +1.7°F | 45.06 |
Over 66 complete years from 1945 to 2025, the station's annual mean temperature rose at a fitted 2.1°F per century (+0.12°C per decade). A fitted rate summarizes the whole record; single years swing well above and below it.
Source: observed years: ACIS, station USW00012844; trend: NOAA GHCN-Monthly v4. A year counts only with all twelve months complete.
How does West Palm Beach's climate compare?
West Palm Beach is warmer than 90 of the other 105 places with their own NOAA record in Florida, and wetter than 83. Across the 7,247 U.S. stations with normals, its annual mean of 75.8°F is warmer than 99%.
In the Köppen classification computed from these normals, West Palm Beach is Af: tropical rainforest. 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 West Palm Beach share this climate record?
28 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.
- Wellington, FLalso near: Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge (11 mi, 74.7°F a year); Palm Beach Gardens (14 mi, 74.4°F a year)63,258 people · 11 mi W
- Greenacres, FL45,197 people · 5 mi SW
- Lake Worth Beach, FL44,417 people · 5 mi SE
- Royal Palm Beach, FL41,948 people · 8 mi W
- Palm Springs, FL28,548 people · 3 mi S
- Lantana, FL12,545 people · 8 mi S
- Palm Beach, FL9,493 people · 4 mi E
- Westgate, FL8,369 people · 1 mi N
- Lake Clarke Shores, FL3,629 people · 3 mi SE
- San Castle, FL3,159 people · 9 mi S
- Hypoluxo, FL2,941 people · 9 mi S
- Mangonia Park, FL2,643 people · 5 mi N
- Lake Belvedere Estates, FL2,532 people · 2 mi W
- Haverhill, FL2,225 people · 1 mi W
- Seminole Manor, FL2,161 people · 7 mi S
- Atlantis, FL2,160 people · 6 mi S
- Pine Air, FL2,036 people · 2 mi S
- Royal Palm Estates, FL1,722 people · 2 mi W
- South Palm Beach, FL1,491 people · 8 mi SE
- Kenwood Estates, FL1,403 people · 4 mi S
- Plantation Mobile Home Park, FL1,115 people · 2 mi NW
- Gun Club Estates, FL853 people · 1 mi SW
- Stacey Street, FL822 people · 2 mi NW
- Schall Circle, FL501 people · 2 mi NW
- Manalapan, FL441 people · 9 mi SE
- Acacia Villas, FL289 people · 3 mi S
- Glen Ridge, FL218 people · 2 mi SE
- Cloud Lake, FL141 people · 2 mi E
Source: Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer (place centers) and Vintage 2024 population estimates. Distance and direction from the station to each place's center.
Questions about West Palm Beach's climate
What is the coldest month in West Palm Beach?
January, with a normal high of 75°F and a normal low of 58°F. The warmest is August (90°F by day, 77°F at night).
What is the rainiest month in West Palm Beach?
August, with 8.68 in of precipitation in a normal year; the driest is February with 2.63 in.
What plant hardiness zone is West Palm Beach in?
The USDA's 2023 map puts West Palm Beach in zone 10b across its 7 ZIP code areas (10b in 33412, the largest). By the same method at West Palm Beach's NOAA station, the coldest night of a typical year reaches 38°F (30 years, 1991-2020): zone 10b.
Nearby and next
- West Palm Beach in OctoberThis month day by day, its records and recent years
- Florida climateThe statewide normals and every place in the state
- Palm Beach Gardens, FL10 miles from this station, 74.4°F a year
- Juno Beach, FL12 miles from this station, 76.0°F a year
- Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, FL15 miles from this station, 74.7°F a year
- Pompano Beach, FL30 miles from this station, 77.2°F a year
- Compare two placesMonth by month, side by side
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