Climate and average weather in Kissimmee

In Kissimmee, the summers are muggy, hot, wet, and partly cloudy and the winters are mild and partly cloudy.

Best: late October to late April

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Kissimmee typically varies from 51°F to 90°F, and is rarely below 37°F or above 94°F. July is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Kissimmee for warm-weather activities is from late October to late April.

Hottest
Jul
90°
Coldest
Jan
51°
Wettest
Aug
6.2 in
Driest
Nov
1.3 in
Rain / yr
40.3 in
134 wet days
Daylight
10.2–13.8 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
66 ft
28.3°N
Clearest
Apr
49% cloud

Kissimmee is largest city and county seat of Osceola County, Florida, United States.

Density
1,217/km²
people per km²
Founded
1881

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Kissimmee weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around late October to late April.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Kissimmee, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 5.1 months, from May 3 to October 5, with daily high temperatures above 85°F. The hottest month of the year in Kissimmee is July, with an average high of 90°F and low of 75°F.

The cool season lasts 2.5 months, from December 5 to February 18, with daily high temperatures below 74°F. The coldest month of the year in Kissimmee is January, with an average low of 51°F and high of 71°F.

Days typically run about 17°F warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 20°F) in March.

40°60°80°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°F)Avg low (°F)
Jan7151
Feb7354
Mar7858
Apr8263
May8769
Jun8974
Jul9075
Aug9076
Sep8874
Oct8368
Nov7760
Dec7354

How hot and cold Kissimmee really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the hottest afternoons, once humidity is folded in, Kissimmee feels like about 99°F (around August 14). About 136 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in August.

50°60°70°80°90°100°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°F)Air high (°F)Feels-like low (°F)Air low (°F)
Jan70715151
Feb73735454
Mar78785858
Apr82826363
May88876969
Jun95897474
Jul98907575
Aug98907676
Sep94887474
Oct85836868
Nov77775960
Dec73735454

Average hourly temperature in Kissimmee

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on July afternoons, near 90°F, and coldest before dawn in January, near 51°F.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Kissimmee weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°F)Rainfall (inches)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan71° / 51°2.25.810.47.3
Feb73° / 54°1.96.1117.5
Mar78° / 58°2.2611.87.6
Apr82° / 63°2.16.212.76.8
May87° / 69°2.78.613.45.0
Jun89° / 74°6.219.213.83.2
Jul90° / 75°5.92213.62.8
Aug90° / 76°6.222.8132.7
Sep88° / 74°5.318.112.23.6
Oct83° / 68°2.4911.36.0
Nov77° / 60°1.34.910.67.7
Dec73° / 54°1.85.310.27.6

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Kissimmee gets about 40.3 in of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is often wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 4.5 months, from around May 24 to Oct 8, peaking in August at about 74% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Nov 13.

August is the wettest month by volume, with 6.2 in over about 23 wet days; November is the driest, with 1.3 in.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 13 · 74%Nov 13 · 15%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan196
Feb216
Mar206
Apr216
May309
Jun6219
Jul7222
Aug7323
Sep6018
Oct309
Nov165
Dec175

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Kissimmee collects about 40.3 in of rain across 134 wet days — roughly 3.4 in in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 6.2 in, while November is the driest at just 1.3 in. The three wettest months alone bring about 46% of the year’s total.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec2.21.92.22.12.76.25.96.25.32.41.31.8
Rainfall (in)Rain days
Jan2.26
Feb1.96
Mar2.26
Apr2.16
May2.79
Jun6.219
Jul5.922
Aug6.223
Sep5.318
Oct2.49
Nov1.35
Dec1.85

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Kissimmee, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around January 1 and lasts for 5.0 months, ending around June 2. The clearest month is May, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 63% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around June 3 and lasts for 4.1 months, ending around October 6. The cloudiest month is July, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 66% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMay 7 · 67%Aug 2 · 32%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5347
Feb5644
Mar5842
Apr6139
May6337
Jun4357
Jul3466
Aug3466
Sep4060
Oct5743
Nov5941
Dec5446

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around June 10, brings about 13 h 48 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 10 h 12 min — a swing of roughly 3 h 36 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan10.47:235:46
Feb11.07:106:10
Mar11.86:426:29
Apr12.76:066:46
May13.45:407:04
Jun13.85:327:20
Jul13.65:427:20
Aug13.05:597:00
Sep12.26:156:25
Oct11.36:315:50
Nov10.66:545:28
Dec10.27:165:28

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Kissimmee averages about 10 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 5 and 13 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 7.7 months, from around Oct 9 to May 29. The sunniest month is May, with roughly 12 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is August, down near 5 sunny days — about 58% fewer than the May peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedMay 613 daysAug 65 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan11Mixed
Feb10Mixed
Mar12Mixed
Apr12Mixed
May12Mixed
Jun6Gloomy
Jul5Gloomy
Aug5Gloomy
Sep7Gloomy
Oct11Mixed
Nov12Mixed
Dec11Mixed

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Kissimmee, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 5.8 months, from around May 4 to October 27. The muggiest month is June, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 99% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 28 to May 3, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 76% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 21 · 79%Jun 17 · 0%miserablehumidmuggycomfortableoppressivedrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan581817700
Feb512021700
Mar442223900
Apr2721292220
May8132538150
Jun01524692
Jul0005869
Aug00057817
Sep013157110
Oct10111824342
Nov3219232060
Dec4717221310

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Across the year, average wind speed in Kissimmee is typically calm, near 6 mph, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 7.6 months, from around Oct 2 to May 21. The windiest month is March, averaging about 7 mph (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around May 22 to Oct 1, with July the calmest month at about 5 mph.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeMar 7 · 7 mphJul 25 · 4 mph
Wind speed (mph)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb7calm
Mar7calm
Apr7calm
May6calm
Jun5calm
Jul5calm
Aug5calm
Sep6calm
Oct6calm
Nov7calm
Dec7calm

Hazard calendar for Kissimmee

In seasonPeak

When the seasonal hazards worth planning around — the rainy season, tropical-cyclone risk and dust haze — are active through the year.

Kissimmee sits in the Atlantic hurricane belt; the season peaks August–October.

Kissimmee's rainy season runs June–September, when most of the year's rain falls.

Atlantic hurricane
Rainy season
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Kissimmee

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Kissimmee throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around mid April, Kissimmee is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 64°F and 82°F. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Kissimmee for general outdoor tourist activities is from late October to late April, with a peak score in the last week of November.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationNov 29 · 7.9

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan7.3good
Feb7.5good
Mar7.5ideal
Apr6.7good
May5.0fair
Jun3.3poor
Jul2.8poor
Aug2.8poor
Sep3.6fair
Oct6.0good
Nov7.7ideal
Dec7.6ideal

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 75°F and 93°F. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Kissimmee for hot-weather activities run from late February to late May and again from early October to early December, with a peak score in the last week of April.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationApr 29 · 7.7

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Kissimmee, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

For a warm-season trip around July (highs near 90°F), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 71°F), pack a light layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Kissimmee sees daytime highs around 90°F and nights near 75°F. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 22 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Kissimmee by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Kissimmee peaks around July 15 at about 11 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 20 at about 4 (moderate).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — every month of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecHighVery highExtremeVery highHighModerateJul 15UV 11Dec 20UV 4
UV index (midday)Level
Jan5Moderate
Feb6High
Mar8Very high
Apr8Very high
May9Very high
Jun10Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug10Very high
Sep9Very high
Oct7High
Nov5High
Dec4Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Kissimmee

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in July the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan40
Feb5.51.5
Mar74
Apr74.5
May85
Jun8.56
Jul8.56
Aug85.5
Sep74.5
Oct62.5
Nov50
Dec3.50

Air quality in Kissimmee by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Kissimmee is worst in July — around 19 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.1× the cleanest month (December, 9 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodJul 1619 µg/m³Dec 149 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan10Good
Feb14Moderate
Mar12Moderate
Apr12Moderate
May12Good
Jun17Moderate
Jul19Moderate
Aug17Moderate
Sep13Moderate
Oct10Good
Nov9Good
Dec9Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Kissimmee is frost-free year round — even the coldest nights rarely reach freezing, so there is no start or end to the growing season.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecfrost-free year round
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan970
Feb990
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec990

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 50°F)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 50°F: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Kissimmee banks about 8,440 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

02,0004,0006,0008,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°F·days)
Jan335
Feb376
Mar544
Apr678
May863
Jun941
Jul1,008
Aug1,015
Sep924
Oct791
Nov549
Dec417

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Kissimmee receives about 4.8 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.0 and 6.3 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.3 months, from around Mar 7 to Sep 13. The brightest month is May, averaging about 6.2 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 3.1 kWh/m² — roughly 51% less than the May peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseMay 86.3 kWhDec 203.0 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan3.4Moderate
Feb4.0Bright
Mar5.1Bright
Apr6.0Bright
May6.3Intense
Jun5.8Bright
Jul5.9Bright
Aug5.5Bright
Sep4.7Bright
Oct4.2Bright
Nov3.5Moderate
Dec3.0Moderate

Where is Kissimmee?

Kissimmee sits at 28.3°N, 81.4°W, 66 ft above sea level, in United States. The nearest listed city is Buenaventura Lakes, 4.3 mi away.

What Kissimmee looks like

Topography around Kissimmee

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 2, 10 and 50 miles of Kissimmee.

Within 2 miles, the terrain around Kissimmee has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 79 ft around an average of 75 ft above sea level; within 10 miles, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 148 ft; within 50 miles, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 377 ft.

The land around Kissimmee is covered by artificial surfaces (42%) and trees (34%) within 2 miles, trees (46%) and artificial surfaces (21%) within 10 miles, and trees (55%) and grassland (26%) within 50 miles.

2 miles
79 ft
10 miles
148 ft
50 miles
377 ft
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetland
Nearby: Buenaventura Lakes 4.3 mi · Meadow Woods 6.2 mi · Southchase 6.2 mi · Saint Cloud 9.3 mi · Oak Ridge 12 mi · Poinciana 12 mi · Four Corners 14 mi · Lake Butler 16 mi

United States travel facts

Power plugs
Type A / B
120 V · 60 Hz
Prices
≈ 100% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$90,027
2025
Happiness
6.8 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
98%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
5.8
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
12.7
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
High
World Bank
Religion
Protestant 47%unaffiliated 23%Roman Catholic 21%Jewish 2%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Kissimmee (28.3047°, -81.4167°, elevation 66 ft), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. Tropical-cyclone seasons are the published climatological basin seasons (NOAA National Hurricane Center / regional warning centres). UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).