Geography and Climate
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 40.4 square miles (105 km2). 31.8 square miles (82 km2) of it is land, and 8.6 square miles (22 km2) of it (21.25%) is water.
Fort Myers has a year-round warm, monsoon-influenced climate that is close to the boundary between tropical and subtropical climates (18 °C (64 °F) in the coldest month), and is thus either classified as a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa), which is the classification used by NOAA, or a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw). Notwithstanding the classification, the area has short, warm winters, and long, hot, humid summers, with most of the year's rainfall falling from June to September. At eighty-nine, Fort Myers leads the nation in the number of days annually in which a thunderstorm is close enough for thunder to be heard. Monthly averages range from 64.9 °F (18.3 °C) in January to 83.1 °F (28.4 °C) in August, with the annual average being 74.9 °F (23.8 °C). Records range from 25°F to 104°F.
| Climate data for Fort Myers, FL (Page Field), 1981-2010 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °F (°C) | 90 (32) |
92 (33) |
93 (34) |
96 (36) |
99 (37) |
103 (39) |
101 (38) |
100 (38) |
98 (37) |
95 (35) |
95 (35) |
90 (32) |
103 (39) |
| Average high °F (°C) | 74.6 (23.7) |
77.0 (25.0) |
80.1 (26.7) |
84.4 (29.1) |
89.2 (31.8) |
91.4 (33.0) |
91.7 (33.2) |
91.7 (33.2) |
90.2 (32.3) |
86.6 (30.3) |
81.3 (27.4) |
76.5 (24.7) |
84.56 (29.20) |
| Average low °F (°C) | 53.5 (11.9) |
56.0 (13.3) |
59.3 (15.2) |
63.2 (17.3) |
68.6 (20.3) |
73.6 (23.1) |
74.6 (23.7) |
75.1 (23.9) |
74.3 (23.5) |
69.0 (20.6) |
62.1 (16.7) |
56.4 (13.6) |
65.48 (18.60) |
| Record low °F (°C) | 27 (−3) |
27 (−3) |
33 (1) |
39 (4) |
50 (10) |
58 (14) |
66 (19) |
65 (18) |
63 (17) |
45 (7) |
34 (1) |
24 (−4) |
24 (−4) |
| Precipitation inches (mm) | 1.89 (48) |
2.13 (54.1) |
2.84 (72.1) |
2.02 (51.3) |
2.72 (69.1) |
10.28 (261.1) |
9.14 (232.2) |
10.21 (259.3) |
8.55 (217.2) |
2.67 (67.8) |
1.92 (48.8) |
1.69 (42.9) |
56.06 (1,423.9) |
| Avg. precipitation days (≥ 0.01 in) | 5.5 | 5.2 | 6.2 | 4.2 | 6.8 | 16.0 | 17.6 | 17.9 | 15.4 | 6.8 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 110.5 |
| Source: NOAA | |||||||||||||
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