Parks / Everglades
When to visit
Everglades.
The park drew an average of 879K recreation visits a year over 2016–2025. February is the busiest month at 12.4% of the year's visits, and September the quietest — 2.7× fewer people.
Crowds
February averages 108,880 recreation visits against 40,052 in September. Visit counts are the National Park Service's own monthly totals for the whole park, so unlike the weather figures below they describe every entrance and every trailhead at once.
Conditions through the year
July is the warmest month at sea level, averaging a daily high of 89°F, and January the coldest at 76°F with lows near 61°F. June is the wettest at 8.9 inches, March the driest at 1.8.
Daylight runs from 10h 36m in December to 13h 42m in June, a difference of 3h 6m of usable time in a day.
No month in the record averages a day of measurable snowfall at that point.
Those temperatures come from a reanalysis grid cell at sea level. A park that spans a range of elevations is warmer in some places and colder in others than one cell can show, and most parks span a wide one. Read the month-to-month shape — which months run warm, wet or snowy relative to each other — rather than any single figure as the temperature you will meet at a given trailhead.
Every month
| Month | High | Low | Wet days | Snow days | Daylight | Visits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 76° | 61° | 7 | 0 | 10h 48m | 103,892 |
| February | 79° | 65° | 7 | 0 | 11h 18m | 108,880 |
| March | 81° | 66° | 6 | 0 | 12h 0m | 106,882 |
| April | 84° | 69° | 11 | 0 | 12h 48m | 77,946 |
| May | 87° | 73° | 15 | 0 | 13h 24m | 62,564 |
| June | 87° | 76° | 23 | 0 | 13h 42m | 64,866 |
| July | 89° | 77° | 21 | 0 | 13h 30m | 59,948 |
| August | 89° | 77° | 23 | 0 | 13h 0m | 59,379 |
| September | 88° | 76° | 22 | 0 | 12h 18m | 40,052 |
| October | 85° | 73° | 15 | 0 | 11h 36m | 43,893 |
| November | 82° | 68° | 7 | 0 | 10h 54m | 63,060 |
| December | 78° | 64° | 6 | 0 | 10h 36m | 88,128 |
Averages over 10 years, 2016–2025. Wet days count days with at least 0.04″ of precipitation; snow days at least 0.4″ of snowfall.
There is no best month here
This page does not pick one. Crowds and weather alone cannot: in the desert parks the emptiest months are empty because the heat is dangerous, and in the mountain parks the quietest ones are quiet because the roads are shut. What a month has usually been like and what it will be like on your date are also different claims — for the second, the planner reads the live seven-day forecast and the park's own notices.
ParkReady is independent and is not affiliated with the National Park Service. Road, trail and campground status comes from the park, and the park is the only authority on it.
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