Climate Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport 2020-2024

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

Calculated from historical METAR data of Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport (KOPF) between 2020 and 2024.

VFR conditions (%)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	87.4	72	96	85	95	89
February	89.0	87	91	86	91	86
March	94.7	94	95	89	96	96
April	92.2		80	95	97	92
May	93.2		96	95	97	89
June	93.0		94	89	94	95
July	95.9		95	96	95	96
August	96.4		96	97	98	94
September	94.3		96	91	98	92
October	93.0		96	92	96	87
November	87.4		80	79	90	87
December	90.8		87	92	95	94
Average	91.8	84.8	91.8	90.6	95.2	91.4

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	94	100	92	99	98
February	96.5	98	98	92	99	96
March	98.1	98	98	97	100	99
April	96.8		87	99	100	99
May	97.7		99	98	98	94
June	96.2		96	91	98	99
July	98.1		98	98	98	99
August	98.3		98	99	100	97
September	97.5		98	96	99	97
October	97.5		99	95	98	97
November	95.9		95	90	95	96
December	96.9		96	95	98	98
Average	97.1	96.4	96.6	95.2	98.4	97.4

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	25.0	25	26	25	24	26
February	26.7	25	28	26	27	26
March	27.5	28	28	28	27	28
April	29.3		29	29	29	31
May	30.4		30	31	31	30
June	31.6		32	32	31	32
July	32.3		33	33	32	32
August	32.6		33	33	33	33
September	31.8		32	32	32	31
October	30.1		30	29	30	30
November	27.7		28	29	26	27
December	25.8		25	27	27	24
Average	28.9	26.0	29.6	29.5	29.0	29.2

56th 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	15.7	18	17	16	15	18
February	17.7	15	19	19	19	18
March	17.9	17	20	21	19	20
April	20.0		20	22	20	21
May	22.1		21	23	24	21
June	24.3		24	24	24	24
July	24.6		25	25	25	25
August	24.4		22	22	26	26
September	23.8		19	25	24	24
October	23.1		20	21	24	24
November	18.3		7	22	18	20
December	16.4		9	20	19	16
Average	20.2	16.7	18.5	21.7	21.4	21.5

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	5	2	6	1	3
February	4.2	6	6	4	3	6
March	3.0	5	2	5	2	1
April	4.8		14	5	2	3
May	6.2		5	5	2	12
June	7.8		5	11	6	4
July	4.7		6	3	6	5
August	4.9		4	2	5	5
September	6.7		4	9	6	9
October	7.1		7	9	6	11
November	8.1		10	12	10	15
December	5.0		15	0	4	1
Average	5.5	5.2	6.5	6.0	4.3	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	9.5	11	9	9	8	10
February	9.7	9	9	9	11	11
March	10.0	9	9	11	10	10
April	10.2		10	11	10	10
May	9.2		8	9	10	9
June	7.2		7	7	8	8
July	7.2		6	10	8	7
August	7.6		8	8	8	8
September	8.0		6	7	6	9
October	9.1		9	8	8	9
November	8.7		9	8	9	11
December	9.1		11	9	7	9
Average	8.8	9.6	8.3	8.7	8.7	9.2

56th 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	107°	112°	004°	359°	092°
February	097°	135°	089°	156°	112°
March	128°	122°	119°	117°	111°
April		118°	108°	122°	166°
May		086°	120°	100°	102°
June		177°	133°	125°	115°
July		132°	123°	128°	118°
August		128°	118°	115°	126°
September		088°	130°	095°	114°
October		048°	048°	081°	101°
November		058°	058°	019°	078°
December		065°	046°	105°	055°

Prevailing wind direction

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