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CLEARWATER · APRIL · FLORIDA GULF COAST April sits at the tail of Florida’s November-to-April dry season, and on Pinellas County’s Gulf shore the normals match the reputation: an average high of 81.8°F, an average low of 64.2°F, 2.57 inches of rain, and a sea surface averaging 76.5°F. Most April questions come back to those … Read more
CLEARWATER · MARCH · FLORIDA GULF COAST Clearwater’s March normals read 77.0°F by day and 59.2°F before dawn, with 2.43 inches of rain spread across the month. For the air, that settles it: a full beach day needs nothing warmer than a March afternoon here. Off the beach, the Gulf averages 73.1°F, swimmable for some … Read more
CLEARWATER · FEBRUARY · 27.9° N Clearwater’s February normals read 73.3°F by day and 55.1°F at night, with 2.38 inches of rain across the whole month. That is shirt sleeves at two in the afternoon and a jacket on the sand at six, on a stretch of Gulf coast where winter visitors outnumber sunburns. The … Read more
TAMPA · DECEMBER · THE MONTH GUIDE December is the month Tampa stops sweating. The 1991-2020 normals at Tampa International put the average high at 73.9°F and the average low at 55.9°F, and the Atlantic hurricane season closed on November 30, so nothing in the tropics is going to reroute the week you book. Rain … Read more
FLORIDA · TAMPA · NOVEMBER November takes Tampa’s average high down to 78.9°F from October’s 85.6°F, and the rainfall with it: 1.40 inches for the month, against 2.34. Those are NOAA’s 1991-2020 normals for the airport station, and they describe exactly the change people book this month for. What they do not describe is the … Read more
TAMPA · AUGUST · 27.9° N Tampa in August is a hot-weather trip with a water clause. NOAA’s 1991-2020 normals for the airport station put the average afternoon at 91.2°F and the overnight low at 76.8°F, with 9.03 inches of rain across the month, more than July’s 7.75 and September’s 6.09. Eleven of those days … Read more
