Climate Homestead Air Reserve Base 2020-2024

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

Calculated from historical METAR data of Homestead Air Reserve Base (KHST) between 2020 and 2024.

VFR conditions (%)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	84.0	67	89	79	92	85
February	84.0	80	86	77	85	81
March	87.5	75	88	78	90	90
April	87.5	86	79	84	94	87
May	88.8		91	87	96	84
June	88.9		89	83	86	88
July	91.7		89	84	93	94
August	92.2		90	89	92	89
September	90.6		90	85	97	88
October	89.3		94	90	92	84
November	85.9		78	76	93	84
December	86.1		76	84	91	95
Average	87.5	77.2	86.6	83.1	91.8	87.5

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	95.5	91	98	92	100	97
February	97.0	96	98	93	99	98
March	98.3	96	99	98	100	99
April	98.7	100	96	98	100	100
May	99.0		99	99	100	97
June	97.6		98	95	97	100
July	98.1		95	100	99	99
August	99.0		98	99	99	100
September	97.2		97	98	99	98
October	98.2		100	99	99	98
November	95.7		93	89	98	98
December	96.6		97	94	99	98
Average	97.6	95.9	97.1	96.3	98.9	98.5

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	26.4	25	28	26	27	26
March	27.0	28	28	28	27	28
April	28.6	28	29	28	29	31
May	29.7		30	30	30	30
June	31.1		31	31	31	31
July	32.0		33	32	32	32
August	32.0		33	32	32	32
September	31.1		32	32	31	31
October	29.7		30	29	30	30
November	27.7		28	29	26	29
December	25.6		25	27	27	25
Average	28.5	26.2	29.2	29.0	28.7	29.1

82nd 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	16.3	18	16	16	16	17
February	18.5	16	19	19	20	18
March	18.7	21	19	20	18	20
April	21.0	21	21	22	20	22
May	22.5		22	22	23	22
June	22.8		13	24	25	26
July	25.1		25	26	25	25
August	25.1		23	26	26	25
September	24.4		24	25	23	25
October	23.7		23	22	23	25
November	20.3		21	22	18	22
December	17.6		17	20	19	16
Average	21.0	18.8	20.4	21.9	21.3	21.9

Average lowest temperature per day

The minimum temperature is typically observed just before sunrise.

Precipitation (%)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	4.1	10	1	6	0	4
February	6.2	15	5	6	4	7
March	4.2	10	4	8	1	1
April	8.0	20	16	7	1	5
May	7.1		2	11	1	15
June	8.3		7	16	7	6
July	6.1		15	6	3	7
August	6.2		5	10	6	8
September	8.1		9	11	4	14
October	6.8		8	8	5	11
November	8.3		15	14	6	10
December	6.6		15	9	3	2
Average	7.1	13.4	8.6	9.4	3.7	7.4

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	8.7	9	8	8	8	9
February	8.5	8	8	9	9	9
March	9.0	8	8	10	9	9
April	9.1	9	9	9	9	9
May	8.2		7	8	9	8
June	6.2		6	6	7	7
July	6.1		5	8	6	6
August	6.6		6	7	7	7
September	7.1		6	7	6	7
October	8.3		8	8	8	8
November	8.6		9	8	8	11
December	8.3		10	8	6	8
Average	7.9	8.7	7.3	7.8	7.6	8.1

82nd 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	076°	079°	355°	022°	057°
February	041°	094°	066°	140°	074°
March	094°	091°	094°	086°	085°
April	084°	094°	082°	093°	150°
May		069°	092°	078°	089°
June		142°	123°	102°	091°
July		124°	099°	105°	087°
August		115°	094°	092°	106°
September		076°	102°	073°	093°
October		046°	040°	054°	079°
November		042°	042°	009°	058°
December		035°	041°	073°	026°

Prevailing wind direction

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