Rainy Season in Florida: Month by Month

Quick answer: Florida’s rainy season is the summer, and it is an afternoon business rather than all-day rain: Miami Beach averages 24 rain days in June under 84°F / 29°C of heat, and Orlando 26 rain days in August. The wet months are May–Oct on the southeast coast and May–Sep inland. Winter is the dry half — 44 mm (1.7 in) in January.

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Best = an ideal daily high for the kind of trip and rain on 10 days or fewer; the rule is under the tool.

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Good: Mar–May, Oct–DecNo month is ideal for a city trip by our rule, but these come close.

Warmest: Aug · 89°F
Coolest: Jan · 49°F
Wettest: Jul · 16 rain days

Averages for 2006–2025: any single year can be hotter, colder or wetter.

Weather from NASA POWER daily data, 2006–2025, for the ~50 km area around each place. Right on the coast, afternoons can be a few degrees warmer than shown.

Month	High / low (°F)	Rain days	Rain (in)	Verdict
Jan	49° / 34°	5	2.4	Off (too cold)
Feb	51° / 35°	7	3.1	Off (too cold)
Mar	57° / 40°	12	5.1	Good (cool, showery)
Apr	65° / 48°	12	6	Good (showery)
May	73° / 58°	13	6.6	Good (showery)
Jun	79° / 65°	16	8.1	Off (too wet)
Jul	86° / 73°	16	6.5	Off (too wet)
Aug	89° / 75°	15	5.4	Off (too hot)
Sep	82° / 70°	16	8.7	Off (too wet)
Oct	72° / 59°	14	8.9	Good (showery)
Nov	63° / 48°	11	4.4	Good (showery)
Dec	54° / 39°	7	3.2	Good (cool)

The tool above opens on Miami Beach: change the place or the month to yours, or compare Orlando and Tampa. Below, Florida month by month — rain, rain days and how warm it is.

Florida month by month

Average rainfall and the number of days with at least 1 mm of rain, 2006–2025. On this page a month counts as wet when it gets more rain than an average month in that place (more than a twelfth of its year), and dry when it gets less than half an average month. The months in between are the shoulder.

Month	Miami Beach	Orlando	Tampa	Miami Beach: rain
January	9 days — dry	7 days — shoulder	8 days — shoulder	44 mm (1.7 in)
February	7 days — dry	7 days — dry	7 days — shoulder	48 mm (1.9 in)
March	8 days — dry	7 days — shoulder	7 days — shoulder	48 mm (1.9 in)
April	11 days — shoulder	9 days — shoulder	9 days — shoulder	79 mm (3.1 in)
May	17 days — wet	12 days — wet	12 days — shoulder	126 mm (5.0 in)
June	24 days — wet	22 days — wet	24 days — wet	200 mm (7.9 in)
July	27 days — wet	26 days — wet	28 days — wet	159 mm (6.3 in)
August	28 days — wet	26 days — wet	28 days — wet	172 mm (6.8 in)
September	27 days — wet	21 days — wet	22 days — wet	186 mm (7.3 in)
October	18 days — wet	11 days — shoulder	10 days — shoulder	124 mm (4.9 in)
November	10 days — shoulder	7 days — shoulder	6 days — dry	67 mm (2.6 in)
December	9 days — dry	6 days — dry	6 days — dry	54 mm (2.1 in)

Miami Beach is wet in May–Oct, shoulder in Apr, Nov and dry in Dec–Mar. Orlando is wet in May–Sep, shoulder in Jan, Mar–Apr, Oct–Nov and dry in Feb, Dec. Tampa is wet in Jun–Sep, shoulder in Jan–May, Oct and dry in Nov–Dec.

The peak moves as you go up the state. Miami Beach’s wettest month is June; Orlando’s and Tampa’s is August, and Tampa’s August alone is 246 mm (9.7 in), the biggest single month of the three.

The wettest and driest months

Miami Beach: wettest in June (200 mm (7.9 in), 24 rain days), driest in January (44 mm (1.7 in), 9 rain days). Orlando: wettest in August (188 mm (7.4 in), 26 rain days), driest in December (51 mm (2.0 in), 6 rain days). Tampa: wettest in August (246 mm (9.7 in), 28 rain days), driest in November (48 mm (1.9 in), 6 rain days). Over the year, Miami Beach gets 1307 mm (51.5 in).

Does the rainy season mean storms?

Not by itself — but Orlando is on the hurricane map, and the two overlap here. In the 50 seasons to 2025 a tropical storm or hurricane passed within 100 miles of it in 9 of them in August, its busiest month — which is to say that in the other 41, that month was rain and nothing else. Rain is what most of a wet season is: for the storms themselves, see hurricane season in Florida and every storm since 1976.

The best months to go

Miami Beach: Nov–Apr · Orlando: Nov–Feb · Tampa: Apr, Oct. When to Go rates every month on temperature, rain days and storms — open Miami Beach in the tool above and step through the year.

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FAQ

When is the rainy season in Florida?

May–Oct — the months that get more rain than an average month in Miami Beach. June is the wettest, at 200 mm (7.9 in) across 24 rain days, against 44 mm (1.7 in) in January (NASA POWER, 2006–2025).

Does it rain all day in the rainy season in Florida?

The measure here is a day with at least 1 mm of rain, not a day of rain. In June, Miami Beach averages 24 rain days out of 30, with an average high of 84°F / 29°C.

What is the driest month in Florida?

January, at 44 mm (1.7 in) across 9 rain days. The dry months, by the rule this page uses, are Dec–Mar.

When is the best time to visit Florida?

When to Go rates Nov–Apr the best of the year here for Miami Beach, on temperature, rain days and — where it applies — storms. The other places on this page have their own; open the tool above on each.

Which part of Florida gets the most rain?

Of the three here, Tampa: 1350 mm (53.1 in) a year, against Miami Beach’s 1307 mm (51.5 in) and Orlando’s 1245 mm (49.0 in). Tampa also has the sharpest summer, 28 rain days in August against 6 rain days in November.

How these numbers are made

Daily rainfall and temperature from NASA POWER (MERRA-2), averaged over 2006–2025; a rain day is a day with at least 1 mm. POWER works on a grid of about 50 km, so each place here is its neighbourhood rather than its own rain gauge: a coast, a small island or a valley under a mountain can differ from the square it sits in. The months are the part that holds; treat a single millimetre figure as an average, not a forecast. Storm counts are from NOAA’s best tracks (HURDAT2), 1976–2025.