Where can I escape summer heat in Florida?

The most common reason that Florida residents seek an out of state summer home is to escape the heat. To accomplish this, residents in Florida must head north. Most people end up choosing North Georgia, Tennessee, or North Carolina as the site for their summer home.



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South Florida summers can feel unbearable, with average temperatures hovering around 89°F.

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Sarasota, FL Frequently recognized as one of the best places to live in the U.S. and one of the best places to retire, the Florida Gulf Coast city of Sarasota offers warm weather throughout the year with summer temperatures in the 80s and 90s and winter temperatures as high as 70 degrees.

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S?everal Florida cities also rewrote their summer heat record books in 2023, including Key West, Miami, Pensacola and Sarasota. While Tampa fell just short of their record summer, they've now had their four hottest summers all within the past four years.

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Sarasota, FL Frequently recognized as one of the best places to live in the U.S. and one of the best places to retire, the Florida Gulf Coast city of Sarasota offers warm weather throughout the year with summer temperatures in the 80s and 90s and winter temperatures as high as 70 degrees.

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Summer 2023 was Florida's hottest on record — here's where the Tampa Bay area ranked. Several Florida regions set temperature records this summer, and the Tampa Bay area was among the hottest.

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Why is the water in Florida so hot? Simply put, the rise in water temperature is due to a combination of things. Long-term changes in the earth's climate are a contributing factor, but so is the lack of wind on the surface of Florida's oceans, which is a side effect of climate change.

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