United States / Florida

Palm Beach

Palm Beach is a coastal resort area in Florida, United States. The sea averages 29.5 °C in August, its warmest month, and 25.0 °C in February; it stays at 21 °C or above all year.

Average sea surface temperature by month. Current month outlined.

Palm Beach, United States
Photo: Mohammad Faruque primitivestudios, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
No lifeguard mapped

OpenStreetMap shows no lifeguard station within 1 km. Seasonal lifeguard posts are often unmapped, so check on site.

Services in the resort

  • 49Restaurants, cafés & bars
  • 1Public toilets
  • –Showers
  • 59Car parks
  • –Lifeguard stations
  • 15Hotels & guesthouses
  • 3Grocery shops
  • 1Marinas & slipways
  • 2Pharmacies & clinics
  • 1Historic sites

Food and drink mapped within 1 km: 39 restaurants, 6 cafés and 4 bars. Accommodation: 15 hotels and guesthouses.

Counted within 1 km of the beach (bus stops 1.5 km) from OpenStreetMap features and Overture Maps places, release of 2026-10. Unmapped does not mean absent.

Month by month

October at Palm Beach

Sea28.4 °C
Day high28 °C
Night low24 °C
Rain112 mm
Cloud cover48%
Wind4.9 m/s
Daylight11.6 h07:18–18:52

Beach-day index 8.5/10 · United States median 4.5

Monthly averages at Palm Beach
MeasureJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Sea °C25.1 °C25.0 °C25.2 °C26.0 °C27.1 °C28.3 °C29.2 °C29.5 °C29.2 °C28.4 °C27.2 °C26.1 °C
High °C22°24°25°26°28°29°30°30°29°28°25°24°
Low °C18°19°20°22°24°26°26°27°26°24°22°20°
Rain mm565370711292061741971911126565
Cloud %454442424764605859484145
Wind m/s5.35.15.35.04.63.73.43.54.04.95.25.2
Daylight h10.611.212.012.813.413.813.713.112.411.610.910.5
Record high/low28°/7°28°/8°30°/10°32°/14°33°/18°33°/23°32°/24°33°/25°32°/23°31°/14°30°/12°29°/6°
Beach index7.78.38.68.88.47.78.07.87.98.58.98.3

Long-term monthly averages: air from NASA POWER (2001–2020), sea from NOAA OISST (1991–2020); records are the extremes of 2001–2020. How the index works.

When to go

The beach-day index peaks in February–May and October–December; November scores 8.9/10 with highs of 25 °C, sea at 27.2 °C and 65 mm of rain.

In November that is 5.6 points above the median of the 2,466 beaches in United States covered by this atlas.

At its warmest the water here is 7.0 °C warmer than the United States median for August (22.5 °C).

Across the year the sea averages 27.2 °C, warmer than 82% of the coastal beaches in the atlas.

June is the wettest month (206 mm) and February the driest (53 mm); the yearly total is about 1,390 mm.

Daylight runs from 10.5 hours in December to 13.8 hours in June; in mid-November the sun rises at 06:39 and sets at 17:30 local time.

Day highNight lowSeaRain (mm)
Climate and sea temperature at Palm BeachMonthly averages. Lines: daytime high, night low, sea surface temperature. Bars: rainfall in millimetres.15°20°25°30°0 mm125 mm250 mmJanuary: 56 mm rainFebruary: 53 mm rainMarch: 70 mm rainApril: 71 mm rainMay: 129 mm rainJune: 206 mm rainJuly: 174 mm rainAugust: 197 mm rainSeptember: 191 mm rainOctober: 112 mm rainNovember: 65 mm rainDecember: 65 mm rainJanuary: sea 25.1 °CFebruary: sea 25 °CMarch: sea 25.2 °CApril: sea 26 °CMay: sea 27.1 °CJune: sea 28.3 °CJuly: sea 29.2 °CAugust: sea 29.5 °CSeptember: sea 29.2 °COctober: sea 28.4 °CNovember: sea 27.2 °CDecember: sea 26.1 °CJanuary: high 22.4 °CFebruary: high 23.5 °CMarch: high 24.5 °CApril: high 26.4 °CMay: high 27.9 °CJune: high 29.1 °CJuly: high 29.7 °CAugust: high 29.9 °CSeptember: high 29.1 °COctober: high 27.7 °CNovember: high 25.2 °CDecember: high 23.8 °CJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Orientation, sun and shore

JunDecNESW

The shore faces east (93°). Open water fills about 39% of the horizon close by, which makes it an open stretch of shore.

The sun sets over the sea in December; in mid-December it goes down at 17:29 local time on a bearing of 244°.

Sunrise is over the sea in every month.

Straight out to the east the next coast is roughly 80 km away, so waves are mostly wind-driven sea rather than ocean swell. The beach is on an island of about 14 km².

About 1 km offshore the sea is roughly 10 m deep and 57 m at 3 km, a shallow, gently shelving sea floor. Behind the beach the ground is about 8 m above sea level 500 m inland and 9 m at 1.5 km, a flat coastal plain.

Within 1 km, the land is 60% built-up land, 17% tree cover and 17% grassland (satellite land-cover map, 2021): an urban beach. Water makes up 37% of that circle.

  • Built 60%
  • Tree 17%
  • Grass 17%
  • Bare 3%
MonthJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Sunset over sea–––––––––––yes
Sunrise over seayesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyes

Land cover: ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m). Orientation from OpenStreetMap land polygons sampled in 36 directions; depths and heights from the GEBCO 2020 grid (about 450 m cells), indicative only.

Getting there

Airports with scheduled flights
AirportCodeDistanceDirection
President Donald J. Trump International Airport West Palm BeachDJT6.4 kmsouth-west
Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport Fort LauderdaleFLL71.3 kmsouth
Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport MiamiOPF92.0 kmsouth

Straight-line distances from the beach; road distance is usually 20–40% longer.

Local transport: rail station Brightline West Palm Beach (2.1 km) and 59 mapped car parks within 1 km.

12 towns and villages of 1,000+ people lie within 10 km (about 208.3K residents); within 30 km there are 37 (about 760.6K).

Photos

Palm Beach, Florida
Photo: Farragutful, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons · Take
Production Date: Circa 1945 Source Type: Postcard Publisher, Printer, Photographer: E. C. Kropp Company (#21669N-25) Postmark: None Collection: Steven R. Shook
Photo: Steve Shook from Moscow, Idaho, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons · 2010
Production Date: 1935 Source Type: Postcard Printer, Publisher, Photographer: F. E. C. News Company, Curt Teich (#P-105, #5A-H2405) Postmark: None Collection: S
Photo: Steve Shook from Moscow, Idaho, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons · 2013

From above

Satellite image of Palm Beach and its surroundings
Satellite view, 2.4 × 1.6 km centred on the beach, 2025-03-20. Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2025.

Around the beach

Historic sites

  • Flag Pole monument 290 m E

Islands in view

  • Everglades Island 1.4 km SW
  • Tarpon Island 1.4 km SW

Lighthouses & piers

  • Royal Palm Dock pier 880 m W
  • Brazilian Dock pier 890 m W
  • Australian Dock pier 930 m W
  • Peruvian Dock pier 950 m SW

Marinas

  • Town of Palm Beach Marina 860 m W

Map and nearby beaches

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Compared with the nearest beaches
BeachDistanceWarmest seaLengthSurface
Palm Beach–29.5 °C––
West Palm Beach2.0 km NW29.5 °C––
Juno Beach19.1 km N29.5 °C4.0 km–
Delray Beach27.4 km S29.6 °C––
Deerfield Beach43.5 km S29.7 °C––
Pompano Beach52.8 km S29.7 °C––

Data on this page

  • Air temperature, rain, cloud, wind, humidity: NASA POWER climatology 2001–2020, 0.5° grid.
  • Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 monthly normals 1991–2020, nearest ocean cell 18.4 km away.
  • Beach outline, surface, rules and public facilities: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); restaurants, cafés, bars and lodging: Overture Maps places (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).
  • Towns and time zone: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Airports: OurAirports (public domain). Sunrise and sunset: NOAA solar equations.
  • Photos: Wikimedia Commons, author and licence under each image.
  • Satellite view: Copernicus Sentinel-2 (ESA), scene S2B_17RNK_20250320_0_L2A.
  • Orientation: OpenStreetMap land polygons (ODbL). Depth and terrain: GEBCO 2020 grid.
  • Settlements: GeoNames places with 1,000+ inhabitants.
  • Land cover: ESA WorldCover 2021, 10 m (CC BY 4.0).
  • Search popularity: about 673K Google searches a month for the name (KeywordTool, October 2026).

Data compiled 2026-10-13. Something wrong? Report a data error.