Climate Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport 2020-2024

Climate and trends: average temperature, flight conditions, precipitation, wind speed and direction.

Calculated from historical METAR data of Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport (KFXE) between 2020 and 2024.

VFR conditions (%)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	88.8	75	88	85	97	92
February	90.3	87	91	81	90	90
March	92.7	90	94	76	95	98
April	93.1		86	91	93	91
May	93.1		96	90	96	86
June	91.2		93	89	90	76
July	95.9		96	93	94	95
August	95.2		88	98	97	94
September	93.5		90	89	98	94
October	93.8		91	93	96	92
November	87.4		74	81	91	87
December	90.8		85	90	96	97
Average	91.6	84.2	89.6	88.0	94.4	90.8

VFR conditions during daylight period

Percentage of observations where the VFR minimums for ceiling and visibility are met: visibility of 5 mi or more and a ceiling of 3,000 ft or more. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Marginal VFR conditions (%)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	96.0	93	98	93	99	98
February	96.3	95	97	92	98	96
March	96.3	98	97	85	99	99
April	96.5		91	97	94	98
May	97.3		99	97	98	93
June	95.1		97	93	96	83
July	98.2		98	98	97	98
August	98.2		96	100	99	97
September	97.2		96	95	99	98
October	97.9		96	97	99	97
November	94.6		89	89	96	98
December	96.8		96	94	99	99
Average	96.6	95.2	95.8	94.2	97.6	96.0

Marginal VFR conditions or better during daylight period

Percentage of observations where the MVFR minimums for ceiling and visibility are met: visibility of 3⅛ mi or more and a ceiling of 1,000 ft or more. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Maximum temperatures (°C)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	24.7	25	26	24	24	25
February	26.7	25	28	26	27	26
March	27.3	28	29	27	27	28
April	29.3		30	29	29	31
May	30.4		31	31	30	30
June	31.1		32	32	31	28
July	32.6		34	33	32	33
August	32.7		33	34	33	33
September	31.9		32	33	32	32
October	30.1		30	30	30	30
November	27.5		28	29	26	28
December	25.7		25	27	27	25
Average	28.8	25.8	29.8	29.5	29.0	28.9

58th highest temperature of United States

Average highest temperature per day

The maximum temperature is typically observed some hours after noon.

Minimum temperatures (°C)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	16.4	18	17	16	15	17
February	19.0	16	20	19	20	18
March	18.9	21	20	17	18	21
April	21.0		22	21	17	22
May	22.8		23	23	23	21
June	23.6		24	24	24	20
July	24.7		26	25	24	25
August	25.7		26	27	26	27
September	24.9		25	26	24	26
October	23.8		24	22	24	25
November	20.6		21	21	19	23
December	17.7		18	20	18	16
Average	21.2	18.1	22.2	21.7	20.9	21.6

Average lowest temperature per day

The minimum temperature is typically observed just before sunrise.

Precipitation (%)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	4.2	6	2	4	1	3
February	4.7	7	2	8	5	9
March	2.3	5	1	4	2	1
April	3.2		6	3	3	2
May	5.8		4	3	3	13
June	6.0		3	9	9	5
July	3.5		2	5	5	4
August	4.6		4	4	3	7
September	6.8		4	11	6	11
October	6.7		5	8	5	14
November	6.8		11	7	8	9
December	5.7		15	4	2	1
Average	5.0	5.7	4.4	5.9	4.3	6.5

Precipitation during daylight period

Percentage of observations with observed rain, drizzle, snow or hail. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Wind speed (knots)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	8.6	9	8	8	7	9
February	9.2	8	9	9	10	10
March	9.2	8	9	9	10	10
April	9.8		10	10	9	9
May	9.0		8	9	10	9
June	7.0		7	7	9	6
July	7.1		6	9	7	8
August	7.7		8	9	8	8
September	7.8		7	7	6	8
October	8.9		8	7	8	9
November	8.1		8	7	7	11
December	8.3		10	7	7	8
Average	8.4	8.6	7.9	8.3	8.3	8.7

58th highest wind speed of United States

Average wind speed

Excluding wind gusts. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Prevailing wind direction

Month	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	115°	108°	008°	115°	092°
February	114°	121°	087°	144°	114°
March	115°	110°	109°	110°	105°
April		106°	097°	112°	140°
May		081°	102°	093°	100°
June		160°	124°	117°	109°
July		122°	114°	116°	109°
August		120°	110°	109°	112°
September		086°	109°	095°	106°
October		049°	054°	077°	095°
November		056°	062°	024°	074°
December		071°	050°	097°	062°

Prevailing wind direction

Average wind direction, weighed by wind speed. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.