Climate Plant City Airport 2020-2024

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

Calculated from historical METAR data of Plant City Airport (KPCM) between 2020 and 2024.

VFR conditions (%)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	81.0	76	88	82	80	85
February	81.8	86	90	77	74	84
March	88.0	84	91	88	80	91
April	88.2		89	86	85	83
May	91.4		95	94	96	88
June	82.1		90	92	87	88
July	87.3		88	92	92	95
August	92.0		94	96	93	92
September	88.3		90	79	92	85
October	88.5		85	97	93	86
November	78.6		78	63	84	80
December	80.2		84	96	76	87
Average	85.5	81.6	88.3	86.3	86.4	87.2

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	92.4	93	94	90	93	94
February	92.1	92	95	90	91	94
March	95.4	94	96	96	94	96
April	96.3		97	96	96	95
May	96.8		97	98	99	97
June	89.1		96	98	96	96
July	91.2		90	95	97	99
August	97.0		98	99	98	97
September	95.1		93	86	96	96
October	96.3		96	98	97	94
November	90.6		89	85	91	93
December	90.7		94	100	86	94
Average	93.6	93.0	94.4	93.7	94.8	95.4

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	21.6	23	14	23	22	24
February	25.7	25	20	27	26	26
March	27.7	29	29	30	27	29
April	29.8		31	30	29	30
May	31.7		29	33	32	32
June	31.0		34	34	33	33
July	28.9		35	35	33	34
August	32.0		35	35	33	33
September	32.5		33	33	32	32
October	30.4		31	30	30	31
November	26.5		27	28	24	28
December	23.8		20	27	27	22
Average	28.1	25.5	27.8	30.5	28.9	29.3

25th 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	11.5	13	12	11	11	13
February	14.4	13	12	14	14	14
March	14.5	18	6	17	15	17
April	16.7		9	20	17	19
May	18.2		4	23	20	19
June	21.3		24	24	23	23
July	20.2		26	20	24	24
August	19.2		20	18	24	15
September	20.7		25	17	23	16
October	20.6		20	20	21	22
November	16.1		17	16	14	19
December	13.2		11	17	16	10
Average	16.8	14.3	15.4	18.1	18.5	17.5

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	0	5	2	2
February	2.9	7	1	4	3	1
March	1.7	3	2	2	2	0
April	3.5		4	3	4	8
May	4.0		5	3	1	4
June	7.8		6	4	6	9
July	8.7		9	6	9	8
August	10.1		7	9	10	11
September	6.7		3	12	9	9
October	2.8		2	1	1	4
November	3.9		8	6	5	5
December	3.5		5	0	2	2
Average	4.9	4.2	4.5	4.8	4.4	5.3

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	5.5	7	6	0	6	6
February	6.2	6	7	4	7	7
March	6.5	6	7	7	7	6
April	6.7		7	7	6	7
May	5.9		5	5	7	6
June	4.4		6	4	5	4
July	3.7		4	4	5	5
August	4.0		5	4	5	4
September	5.0		4	5	4	5
October	5.6		6	4	5	6
November	5.5		5	6	5	7
December	5.5		6	7	4	6
Average	5.4	6.5	5.7	4.6	5.3	5.7

25th 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	129°	230°	360°	253°	075°
February	235°	218°	057°	239°	193°
March	199°	226°	178°	163°	160°
April		126°	103°	202°	245°
May		026°	270°	083°	069°
June		260°	113°	172°	088°
July		261°	161°	187°	204°
August		112°	145°	147°	132°
September		048°	037°	106°	089°
October		035°	039°	068°	070°
November		041°	032°	024°	062°
December		040°	065°	043°	056°

Prevailing wind direction

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