[OysterCatcher]

If you had the means to spend the summer up north or in the mountains and spend winter in south Florida you would have the best of both worlds. Most of us however, cannot afford to own two homes.

With that said if one were to spend the entire year in FL, based on the mildest climate where would that be? In other words, you would avoid the cold temps of the winter, while limiting the hottest, most humid parts of summer.

Thanks for your feedback!

[doggiebus]

I would say based only on your weather concerns only, Jacksonville/St. Augustine area. Cities on the Ocean side are usually cooler in the summer than places on the gulf side. And places inland Gainesville, Lake City, Orlando are the hottest and most humid. Jacksonville/St. Augustine they get the sea breeze from the Ocean which helps (all places on the coast will have some sort of sea breeze). Also North Florida gets a little bit of winter, so you get a change in temperature as South Florida (Miami, Palm Beach, Ft. Lauderdale) has had a really warm on average 80F winter and humid on some days. So no real relief from last summers heat. The year is starting to be a year round summer temps in South Florida.

[Suzanne45]

As a central FL resident, I would agree completely with the above post.

[sunrico90]

I have experienced the Homestead area, Satellite Beach and Navarre. Of the 3 Navarre has a more moderate weather, more changes in the seasons (without snow) and lots of trees which help keeping the area a bit cooler in the summer....

[Wilshire81182]

I agree with doggiebus's post too 100% JAX probably has the best climate overall, or the Tampa Bay area, both because they are closer to the ocean but do cool down a little more than Miami in the Winter.

Inland areas get more humid and thus more unbearable for someone new to the area. I love humidity, but I understand most people do not and it is probably worst in the area if you looked at a map and drew a straight line from Tallahassee to Orlando to the everglades where there is less ocean breeze.

[Magnulus]

Miami has one of the lowest summertime temperatures in the state, about 88 degrees. Orlando and Lakeland have some of the highest, 92-93. 88 degrees in Florida will feel about like 100 because of the heat index, and 92-95 will feel like 105-110.

[doom1001]

I live down in Miami and visited St.Augustine late January.Temperatures went down into the high 40's at night in St.Augustine and as we left and drove south I kept putting my hand out the window and I could just feel the warming up.I think the next day Miami had highs in the high 70's and the day after in the low 80's and I kept checking weather.com and seeing how St.Augustine only had highs in the 60's as we were around 80 most of january.This year in Miami I think we literally had 3-4 days I would consider winter and maybe 2 weeks of cooler Fall/Spring temperatures.I don't like my summer to last around 8 months or to have highs in the low 80's during the few cool months that we have.I've always said a perfect situation would be somewhere like St.Augustine from October through April or so and then head to like California from May through September,but since financially that would be difficult north Florida year round is better than Miami year round.I can deal with Miami for 2 months or so in the winter but come summer if I don't get out of here for long stretches at a time I couldn't live here.

[doom1001]

Originally Posted by Magnulus

Miami has one of the lowest summertime temperatures in the state, about 88 degrees. Orlando and Lakeland have some of the highest, 92-93. 88 degrees in Florida will feel about like 100 because of the heat index, and 92-95 will feel like 105-110.

It's true Miami doesn't get as hot as Orlando in the summer but believe me it usually gets hotter than 88,most normal summer days it's like 91-93 and heat indexes over 100.With that said I was once in Orlando in May,not even the worst of the summer and it got to 97 with a heat index of 110.That's as hot as I've seen it anywhere in Florida.

[Magnulus]

Originally Posted by doom1001

It's true Miami doesn't get as hot as Orlando in the summer but believe me it usually gets hotter than 88,most normal summer days it's like 91-93 and heat indexes over 100.With that said I was once in Orlando in May,not even the worst of the summer and it got to 97 with a heat index of 110.That's as hot as I've seen it anywhere in Florida.

97 is about as hot as it ever gets in Orlando, but any time it is over 92 you will pay for it. I ride a motorcycle year round in Orlando and I either have to drink a pint of water or Gatorade every thirty minutes, or I have to wear a special cooling vest. I don't even dream of wearing a leather jacket in that kind of weather (I do wear a helmet and it is also somewhat hot, but better than no helmet). As a result in the summer I do most of my riding at dawn and dusk. Even in the summertime in the morning the humidity is unreal and I go through alot of anti-fog goop just to see.

Daytona is slightly cooler than Orlando because there is usually a breeze in the summer. It is still hot but not as funky as Orlando. Lakeland is a little worse than Orlando. July in Lakeland is unreal, it's like a sauna.

[ChrisA70]

Anything inland more than 10 miles is alot hotter, and more humid. Here in Cape Coral, it will be 85, but in Lehigh Acres it will be 90 or more degrees for example. When I lived in Melbourne, FL. it was hot, but we had a seabreeze. When I lived in Orlando it was brutal!!! I hated it there, no seabreeze at all, dead air.