Climate in Punta Gorda
Punta Gorda has a humid subtropical climate: warm winters that draw retirees and snowbirds, and a hot, wet summer that overlaps almost entirely with Atlantic hurricane season -- the same pattern that produced Charley in 2004 and Ian in 2022.
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The mean annual temperature runs about 73.9°F. August, the warmest month, sees daytime highs around 91°F with overnight lows near 75°F; January, the coolest month, runs about 73°F in the day and down to roughly 52°F overnight, per Climate-Data.org's monthly averages. Air can feel uncomfortably humid from roughly May through October.
Rainfall is heavily seasonal
Punta Gorda averages about 50 inches (1,270 mm) of rain a year, per Weather-and-Climate.com, with distinct dry (roughly November-December) and wet (June-September) seasons. August, the wettest month, averages about 9.8 inches of rain across 23 rainy days, while November, the driest month, averages only about 1.4 inches across 5 rainy days.
Hurricane season is not a hypothetical risk here
Atlantic hurricane season runs June 1 through November 30, directly overlapping Punta Gorda's wettest months. This is not an abstract seasonal note for this city specifically: Hurricane Charley made a direct Category 4 landfall here in August 2004, and Hurricane Ian struck again in September 2022 with roughly 7 feet of storm surge and serious flooding, per BayNews9's contemporaneous reporting. See the taxes-insurance topic for what that repeated history means for insurance costs and local infrastructure today.
Key takeaways
- Mean annual temperature is about 73.9°F; winters are mild (around 73°F/52°F day/night in January) and summers are hot and humid (around 91°F/75°F in August), per Climate-Data.org.
- Rainfall totals about 50 inches/year, concentrated in the June-September wet season -- August averages about 9.8 inches over 23 rainy days versus November's roughly 1.4 inches over 5 days.
- Hurricane season (June 1-November 30) overlaps the wettest months and is a lived, repeated reality here -- Hurricane Charley (2004) and Hurricane Ian (2022) both directly affected Punta Gorda.
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