Moving to Florida
The boxes are one story. This is the other one: what changes about your home’s year when you move to Florida. Winter all but disappears, the garden never really closes, and the summer, long and humid, becomes the season you plan the house around.
Compare your own move
Pick the place you are leaving and your Florida destination. You get a climate match score and a line-by-line read on frost, growing season, winter lows, and summer highs.
What changes when you move to Florida
- Winter all but vanishes. North Florida sees a few light frosts a year; the southern half effectively never freezes. The shovel, the winter tires, and the freeze-up checklist all retire.
- The growing season barely closes. Frost-free days run close to 300 in central Florida and year-round in the south. A garden that ran four months up north can run nearly all year.
- Summer is the main event. Long, humid, and storm-season. The heat and the wet, not the cold, become what you plan the house and the yard around.
Common moves to Florida
Each one opens a full climate comparison, computed from the nearest official station to both places.
From Toronto, ON
From New York City, NY
From Halifax, NS
From Chicago, IL
From Montréal, QC
From Ottawa, ON
From Québec, QC
From Los Angeles, CA
Moving to Florida, the climate questions
Does it ever frost in Florida?
Lightly and briefly in the north (the Panhandle and around Jacksonville see a handful of frosts most winters), and essentially never in the south. Miami and the Keys can go decades without a freeze. The comparison gives your destination’s coldest month and average lows so you know exactly which Florida you are moving to.
Can I really garden year-round?
In central and south Florida, yes, on a flipped calendar: the cool season (fall through spring) is the prime growing window, and high summer is the hard season. Each comparison gives the frost-free day count for your destination from the 30-year record.
Is this based on real data?
Yes. U.S. figures come from NOAA NCEI 30-year climate normals and Canadian figures from Environment and Climate Change Canada, both at the nearest official station to each place. These are planning averages for the home year, not forecasts, and not storm, insurance, or safety guidance.
Method and sources
Every comparison is built from 30-year climate normals at the nearest official station to each place: NOAA NCEI on the United States side, Environment and Climate Change Canada on the Canadian side. These are planning averages, not forecasts, and they cover climate and the home year only. They are not immigration, tax, insurance, or legal guidance. See the methodology page for the full calculation.