Gainesville Regional Airport

KGNV · Florida, United States

Climate Gainesville Regional Airport 2020-2024

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

Calculated from historical METAR data of Gainesville Regional Airport (KGNV) between 2020 and 2024.

VFR conditions (%)

Month Average 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
January 82.0 79 87 80 73 81
February 76.8 84 77 73 68 78
March 81.8 76 76 71 80 91
April 88.3 90 86 91 92 84
May 89.0 82 91 96 91
June 87.6 85 91 88 90
July 91.7 93 90 89 96
August 90.6 90 91 89 96
September 87.9 87 82 85 82
October 86.5 84 86 92 84
November 74.6 71 62 84 76
December 76.1 84 78 64 87
Average 84.8 82.4 83.7 82.9 84.1 86.8

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 91.6 91 91 89 90 92
February 87.1 92 87 83 81 88
March 89.2 88 85 78 89 94
April 94.1 94 93 95 94 94
May 94.3 90 94 97 97
June 93.5 92 95 95 93
July 95.5 97 93 94 98
August 94.7 94 94 94 98
September 94.1 96 91 91 89
October 93.1 91 92 97 89
November 86.9 83 79 92 86
December 87.2 89 90 81 94
Average 92.0 91.1 90.9 89.5 91.7 92.9

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 20.2 20 22 19 19 21
February 24.0 22 26 23 23 23
March 25.4 25 26 26 25 28
April 27.5 27 28 27 26 27
May 30.4 29 31 30 29
June 31.9 32 34 31 31
July 32.3 33 33 31 32
August 32.4 34 33 32 32
September 31.2 32 30 30 30
October 28.4 28 28 28 29
November 23.6 23 24 22 25
December 21.4 21 23 24 19
Average 27.0 23.5 27.8 27.6 26.8 27.1

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 7.5 8 8 7 7 9
February 10.8 8 12 9 9 10
March 11.9 13 13 13 12 14
April 14.5 13 16 15 13 15
May 17.8 18 18 15 17
June 21.8 21 22 21 21
July 22.7 23 23 23 23
August 23.0 23 23 24 23
September 20.3 21 21 17 22
October 17.3 16 14 17 19
November 12.2 12 14 10 15
December 9.8 11 11 12 5
Average 15.2 10.8 16.2 16.0 15.1 16.0

Average lowest temperature per day

The minimum temperature is typically observed just before sunrise.

Precipitation (%)

Month Average 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
January 3.0 4 4 1 2 3
February 6.2 9 7 7 9 5
March 4.6 8 3 10 7 0
April 3.1 3 2 2 3 6
May 3.6 2 2 1 5
June 5.8 4 3 3 11
July 4.9 2 4 7 4
August 6.3 5 2 6 6
September 4.7 2 7 5 9
October 3.5 2 1 2 7
November 6.2 11 11 3 11
December 6.2 7 4 1 7
Average 4.9 6.0 3.9 4.4 4.0 6.2

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 7.0 7 6 7 7 7
February 7.0 7 8 7 7 8
March 7.2 7 7 7 7 7
April 7.2 7 8 7 6 8
May 6.4 6 6 7 7
June 5.9 7 6 6 5
July 5.0 5 5 5 6
August 5.1 6 5 5 5
September 5.8 6 6 4 6
October 6.4 6 5 5 7
November 6.6 6 8 6 8
December 6.3 7 5 6 6
Average 6.3 6.8 6.5 6.0 6.0 6.5

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 269° 242° 323° 250° 059°
February 255° 243° 078° 260° 246°
March 174° 241° 207° 044° 210°
April 204° 087° 128° 242° 241°
May 020° 184° 091° 044°
June 250° 099° 174° 091°
July 250° 205° 185° 224°
August 197° 134° 158° 199°
September 055° 030° 087° 056°
October 025° 025° 031° 050°
November 019° 029° 012° 048°
December 351° 049° 239° 310°

Prevailing wind direction

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