United States / Florida

Vero Beach

Vero Beach is a coastal resort area in Florida, United States. The sea averages 28.2 °C in September, its warmest month, and 20.9 °C in February; it is 21 °C or warmer in March–January.

Average sea surface temperature by month. Current month outlined.

Taken in Vero Beach, Florida on December 27, 2008.
Photo: sylvar, CC BY 2.0, 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

  • 106Restaurants, cafés & bars
  • 3Public toilets
  • –Showers
  • 170Car parks
  • –Lifeguard stations
  • 4Hotels & guesthouses
  • 12Grocery shops
  • 45Bus stops (1.5 km)
  • 3Pharmacies & clinics

Food and drink mapped within 1 km: 78 restaurants, 13 cafés, 14 bars and 1 fast-food outlet. Accommodation: 4 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 Vero Beach

Sea27.1 °C
Day high27 °C
Night low26 °C
Rain122 mm
Cloud cover45%
Wind5.9 m/s
Daylight11.6 h07:20–18:53

Beach-day index 8.3/10 · United States median 4.5

Monthly averages at Vero Beach
MeasureJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Sea °C21.3 °C20.9 °C21.4 °C23.1 °C24.9 °C26.7 °C27.5 °C27.9 °C28.2 °C27.1 °C24.6 °C22.9 °C
High °C22°22°23°24°26°28°29°29°29°27°25°23°
Low °C19°20°21°23°25°27°28°28°28°26°23°21°
Rain mm645869651071961671921841226270
Cloud %464641404257565355454347
Wind m/s6.56.06.25.95.54.54.14.35.15.96.56.4
Daylight h10.611.212.012.813.513.913.713.212.411.610.810.4
Record high/low27°/10°26°/11°28°/12°29°/15°29°/19°30°/24°31°/25°30°/25°31°/25°30°/16°28°/14°27°/8°
Beach index6.66.87.28.58.57.88.17.97.88.38.67.8

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 April–May, July and October–November; November scores 8.6/10 with highs of 25 °C, sea at 24.6 °C and 62 mm of rain.

In November that is 5.3 points above the median of the 2,466 beaches in United States covered by this atlas.

At its warmest the water here is 7.3 °C warmer than the United States median for September (20.9 °C).

Across the year the sea averages 24.7 °C, warmer than 76% of the coastal beaches in the atlas.

June is the wettest month (196 mm) and February the driest (58 mm); the yearly total is about 1,360 mm.

Daylight runs from 10.4 hours in December to 13.9 hours in June; in mid-November the sun rises at 06:42 and sets at 17:30 local time.

Day highNight lowSeaRain (mm)
Climate and sea temperature at Vero BeachMonthly averages. Lines: daytime high, night low, sea surface temperature. Bars: rainfall in millimetres.15°20°25°30°0 mm100 mm200 mmJanuary: 64 mm rainFebruary: 58 mm rainMarch: 69 mm rainApril: 65 mm rainMay: 107 mm rainJune: 196 mm rainJuly: 167 mm rainAugust: 192 mm rainSeptember: 184 mm rainOctober: 122 mm rainNovember: 62 mm rainDecember: 70 mm rainJanuary: sea 21.3 °CFebruary: sea 20.9 °CMarch: sea 21.4 °CApril: sea 23.1 °CMay: sea 24.9 °CJune: sea 26.7 °CJuly: sea 27.5 °CAugust: sea 27.9 °CSeptember: sea 28.2 °COctober: sea 27.1 °CNovember: sea 24.6 °CDecember: sea 22.9 °CJanuary: high 21.7 °CFebruary: high 22.1 °CMarch: high 22.8 °CApril: high 24.3 °CMay: high 25.8 °CJune: high 27.7 °CJuly: high 28.6 °CAugust: high 29 °CSeptember: high 28.5 °COctober: high 27.1 °CNovember: high 24.8 °CDecember: high 23.3 °CJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Setting

Within 1 km, the land is 58% built-up land, 31% tree cover and 11% grassland (satellite land-cover map, 2021): an urban beach.

  • Built 58%
  • Tree 31%
  • Grass 11%

Land cover: ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m).

Getting there

Airports with scheduled flights
AirportCodeDistanceDirection
Vero Beach Regional Airport Vero BeachVRB2.7 kmnorth-west
Melbourne Orlando International Airport MelbourneMLB56.8 kmnorth-west
President Donald J. Trump International Airport West Palm BeachDJT110 kmsouth

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

Local transport: 45 bus stops within 1.5 km and 170 mapped car parks within 1 km.

8 towns and villages of 1,000+ people lie within 10 km (about 84.1K residents); within 30 km there are 17 (about 193.3K).

Photos

From above

Satellite image of Vero Beach and its surroundings
Satellite view, 2.4 × 1.6 km centred on the beach, 2025-01-12. Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2025.

Around the beach

Attractions & museums

  • Indian River Citrus Museum museum 230 m NW
  • Royal Park Arcade museum 280 m E
  • Indian River County Historical Society museum 490 m N

Map

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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 26.4 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_17RNL_20250112_0_L2A.
  • Settlements: GeoNames places with 1,000+ inhabitants.
  • Land cover: ESA WorldCover 2021, 10 m (CC BY 4.0).
  • Search popularity: about 110K Google searches a month for the name (KeywordTool, October 2026).

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