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MIAMI · SEPTEMBER · 25.79° N September is the month Miami puts on sale. Rooms fall to their annual floor, the ocean sits at 87.8°F, and the price of both is 10.22 inches of rain and a calendar whose Atlantic hurricane activity peaks, statistically, on the 10th. The trade is legible once the numbers are … Read more
MIAMI · AUGUST · 25.8° N August is the month Miami’s thermometer and its price tags move in opposite directions. The official gauge at Miami International puts the average high at 90.7°F and the average low at 77.7°F, with 9.58 inches of rain spread across roughly thirteen wet days. Offshore, the water sits at 88.3°F. … Read more
MIAMI · JULY · 25.8° N By mid-July, Miami has settled into the one temperature it keeps all summer: 90.6°F in the afternoon, 77.5°F before dawn, and an ocean at 88.2°F that gives back no relief whatsoever. The city adjusts rather than complains. Beaches fill at seven in the morning, restaurants run the air conditioning … Read more
MIAMI · JUNE · 25.8° N June is the wettest month on Miami’s own record: 10.51 inches at the airport gauge, against 1.83 inches in January. It is also the month of the longest days, 13 hours 47 minutes of daylight on the 15th, and of sea water averaging 85.4°F. Those three facts pull in … Read more
MIAMI · MAY · 25.8° N Miami in May is the month the water catches up with the air. The sea off the beaches averages 83.0°F, warmer than at any point of the winter, while the afternoon storms that define a Miami summer have not yet settled into a daily habit: 6.32 inches of rain … Read more
MIAMI · APRIL · 25.8° N April is the last month before Miami’s summer pattern takes over. The airport gauge averages a high of 83.6°F and a low of 69.8°F, the month collects 3.36 inches of rain across roughly four wet days, and the water off the beach runs about 79.6°F. Hurricane season does not … Read more
