Ideal weather days in Tampa
The best time to visit Tampa for warm, dry weather is February to April and October to December, with 22 to 26 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Tampa's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in February to April and October to December.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Tampa, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too hot108
- Too wet94
- Too windy7
- Too cold3
A day can fail more than one test.
Warm and dry, beach and mild days
With the Warm & dry preset (a high of 18–33 °C, no more than 1 mm of rain, wind under 20 km/h), Tampa averaged 194 days a year in 2023–2025. Every number here is counted from real measured days in the United States, not from climate averages.
Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in April and May (up to 20 a month, 109 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in December and January (up to 13 a month, 48 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too hot (over 33 °C): 108 a year, mostly in June to September. Another 94 are wet (more than 1 mm of rain), mostly in June to September. A day can fail more than one test.
Tampa weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 23 °C 73 °F | 8 | 1 | 9 | 21 of 31 |
| February | 26 °C 79 °F | 5 | 1 | 10 | 23 of 28 |
| March | 28 °C 82 °F | 6 | 1 | 10 | 26 of 31 |
| April | 31 °C 87 °F | 3 | 1 | 8 | 23 of 30 |
| May | 33 °C 91 °F | 5 | 0 | 4 | 15 of 31 |
| June | 34 °C 92 °F | 15 | 0 | 1 | 6 of 30 |
| July | 34 °C 93 °F | 15 | 0 | 0 | 2 of 31 |
| August | 35 °C 94 °F | 16 | 1 | 0 | 1 of 31 |
| September | 34 °C 92 °F | 11 | 1 | 1 | 6 of 30 |
| October | 31 °C 87 °F | 8 | 0 | 4 | 22 of 31 |
| November | 29 °C 83 °F | 7 | 0 | 10 | 24 of 30 |
| December | 25 °C 76 °F | 6 | 1 | 9 | 25 of 31 |
| Year | 104 | 7 | 65 | 194 of 365 |
Typical high is the median daily maximum. A rain day has 1 mm or more; a windy day a mean wind above 20 km/h; a clear day a daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average (9:00–17:00). Days are averaged over 2023–2025 and scaled to the length of each month.
Year by year
- 2023 207 warm, dry days
- 2024 186 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Tampa for good weather?
The best time to visit Tampa for warm, dry weather is February to April and October to December, with 22 to 26 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in April and May (up to 20 a month, 109 a year). Counted from measured days at Tampa International Airport station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Tampa?
On average 104 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was August (16 rain days), the driest April (3).
How many sunny days does Tampa get a year?
About 65 days a year had mostly clear skies (daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average, 9:00–17:00), most of them in February (10).
How warm does Tampa get?
The median daily high ranged from 23 °C (73 °F) in January to 35 °C (94 °F) in August.
Nearby
- Orlando120 km203 days
- Miami330 km181 days
- Atlanta670 km168 days
- New Orleans770 km144 days
- Mérida1060 km, Mexico100 days
- Kingston1250 km, Jamaica151 days
- San Juan1980 km, Puerto Rico104 days
More cities in the United States
- San Diego 317 days
- Tijuana 311 days
- Los Angeles 296 days
- Honolulu 224 days
- Charlotte 177 days
- Sacramento 169 days
- Phoenix 166 days
- San Francisco 162 days
- San Antonio 157 days
- Denver 151 days
- Nashville 150 days
- St. Louis 143 days
- Seattle 142 days
- Houston 141 days
- Kansas City 135 days
- Austin 134 days
- Albuquerque 132 days
- Detroit 131 days
- Dallas 129 days
- New York 129 days
- Las Vegas 126 days
- Chicago 120 days
- Minneapolis 120 days
- Boise 117 days
- Billings 116 days
- Boston 116 days
- Salt Lake City 107 days
- Fairbanks 81 days
- Anchorage 55 days
- Juneau 45 days
Where is the best climate in the United States?
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Source: Tampa International Airport weather station (72211012842), 8 km from the centre of Tampa, 2 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 88% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.