Fall Weather in Gainesville Florida, United States

Daily high temperatures decrease by 17°F, from 88°F to 71°F, rarely falling below 60°F or exceeding 93°F.

Daily low temperatures decrease by 21°F, from 72°F to 50°F, rarely falling below 35°F or exceeding 75°F.

For reference, on July 17, the hottest day of the year, temperatures in Gainesville typically range from 72°F to 90°F, while on January 14, the coldest day of the year, they range from 44°F to 66°F.

The figure below shows you a compact characterization of the hourly average fall temperatures. The horizontal axis is the day, the vertical axis is the hour of the day, and the color is the average temperature for that hour and day.

Al Hadā, Saudi Arabia (7,251 miles away) is the far-away foreign place with temperatures most similar to Gainesville (view comparison).

© OpenStreetMap contributors

Compare Gainesville to another city:

CompareMap

The fall in Gainesville experiences very rapidly decreasing cloud cover, with the percentage of time that the sky is overcast or mostly cloudy decreasing from 57% to 39%. The lowest chance of overcast or mostly cloudy conditions is 34% on October 26.

The clearest day of the fall is October 26, with clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy conditions 66% of the time.

For reference, on July 11, the cloudiest day of the year, the chance of overcast or mostly cloudy conditions is 64%, while on October 26, the clearest day of the year, the chance of clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy skies is 66%.

A wet day is one with at least 0.04 inches of liquid or liquid-equivalent precipitation. In Gainesville, the chance of a wet day over the course of the fall is very rapidly decreasing, starting the season at 56% and ending it at 19%.

For reference, the year's highest daily chance of a wet day is 69% on July 26, and its lowest chance is 17% on November 21.

Rainfall

To show variation within the season and not just the monthly totals, we show the rainfall accumulated over a sliding 31-day period centered around each day.

The average sliding 31-day rainfall during the fall in Gainesville is very rapidly decreasing, starting the season at 5.4 inches, when it rarely exceeds 9.7 inches or falls below 2.7 inches, and ending the season at 2.0 inches, when it rarely exceeds 4.5 inches or falls below 0.4 inches.

The lowest average 31-day accumulation is 1.8 inches on November 9.

Over the course of the fall in Gainesville, the length of the day is very rapidly decreasing. From the start to the end of the season, the length of the day decreases by 2 hours, 21 minutes, implying an average daily decrease of 1 minute, 34 seconds, and weekly decrease of 10 minutes, 56 seconds.

The shortest day of the fall is November 30, with 10 hours, 23 minutes of daylight and the longest day is September 1, with 12 hours, 44 minutes of daylight.

The latest sunrise of the fall in Gainesville is 7:43 AM on November 2 and the earliest sunrise is 59 minutes earlier at 6:44 AM on November 3.

The latest sunset is 7:50 PM on September 1 and the earliest sunset is 2 hours, 21 minutes earlier at 5:29 PM on November 30.

Daylight saving time (DST) ends at 1:00 AM on November 3, 2024, shifting sunrise and sunset to be an hour earlier.

For reference, on June 20, the longest day of the year, the Sun rises at 6:29 AM and sets 14 hours, 3 minutes later, at 8:32 PM, while on December 21, the shortest day of the year, it rises at 7:20 AM and sets 10 hours, 15 minutes later, at 5:34 PM.

The figure below presents a compact representation of the sun's elevation (the angle of the sun above the horizon) and azimuth (its compass bearing) for every hour of every day in the reporting period. The horizontal axis is the day of the year and the vertical axis is the hour of the day. For a given day and hour of that day, the background color indicates the azimuth of the sun at that moment. The black isolines are contours of constant solar elevation.

The figure below presents a compact representation of key lunar data for the fall of 2024. The horizontal axis is the day, the vertical axis is the hour of the day, and the colored areas indicate when the moon is above the horizon. The vertical gray bars (new Moons) and blue bars (full Moons) indicate key Moon phases. The label associated with each bar indicates the date and time that the phase is obtained, and the companion time labels indicate the rise and set times of the Moon for the nearest time interval in which the moon is above the horizon.

We base the humidity comfort level on the dew point, as it determines whether perspiration will evaporate from the skin, thereby cooling the body. Lower dew points feel drier and higher dew points feel more humid. Unlike temperature, which typically varies significantly between night and day, dew point tends to change more slowly, so while the temperature may drop at night, a muggy day is typically followed by a muggy night.

The chance that a given day will be muggy in Gainesville is very rapidly decreasing during the fall, falling from 96% to 14% over the course of the season.

For reference, on August 3, the muggiest day of the year, there are muggy conditions 99% of the time, while on January 24, the least muggy day of the year, there are muggy conditions 3% of the time.

This section discusses the wide-area hourly average wind vector (speed and direction) at 10 meters above the ground. The wind experienced at any given location is highly dependent on local topography and other factors, and instantaneous wind speed and direction vary more widely than hourly averages.

The average hourly wind speed in Gainesville is increasing during the fall, increasing from 4.6 miles per hour to 5.8 miles per hour over the course of the season.

For reference, on March 8, the windiest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 6.4 miles per hour, while on July 22, the calmest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 4.2 miles per hour.

The wind direction in Gainesville during the fall is predominantly out of the east from September 1 to October 17 and the north from October 17 to November 30.

Gainesville is located near a large body of water (e.g., ocean, sea, or large lake). This section reports on the wide-area average surface temperature of that water.

The average surface water temperature in Gainesville is very rapidly decreasing during the fall, falling by 16°F, from 85°F to 69°F, over the course of the season.

Definitions of the growing season vary throughout the world, but for the purposes of this report, we define it as the longest continuous period of non-freezing temperatures (≥ 32°F) in the year (the calendar year in the Northern Hemisphere, or from July 1 until June 30 in the Southern Hemisphere).

The growing season in Gainesville typically lasts for 9.6 months (292 days), from around February 20 to around December 8, rarely starting before January 28 or after March 19, and rarely ending before November 13 or after December 31.

The fall in Gainesville is more likely than not fully within the growing season, with the chance that a given day is in the growing season rapidly decreasing from 100% to 65% over the course of the season.

Growing degree days are a measure of yearly heat accumulation used to predict plant and animal development, and defined as the integral of warmth above a base temperature, discarding any excess above a maximum temperature. In this report, we use a base of 50°F and a cap of 86°F.

The average accumulated growing degree days in Gainesville are very rapidly increasing during the fall, increasing by 1,800°F, from 4,853°F to 6,653°F, over the course of the season.

This section discusses the total daily incident shortwave solar energy reaching the surface of the ground over a wide area, taking full account of seasonal variations in the length of the day, the elevation of the Sun above the horizon, and absorption by clouds and other atmospheric constituents. Shortwave radiation includes visible light and ultraviolet radiation.

The average daily incident shortwave solar energy in Gainesville is rapidly decreasing during the fall, falling by 1.5 kWh, from 5.0 kWh to 3.4 kWh, over the course of the season.

For the purposes of this report, the geographical coordinates of Gainesville are 29.652 deg latitude, -82.325 deg longitude, and 174 ft elevation.

The topography within 2 miles of Gainesville contains only modest variations in elevation, with a maximum elevation change of 128 feet and an average elevation above sea level of 142 feet. Within 10 miles also contains only modest variations in elevation (148 feet). Within 50 miles also contains only modest variations in elevation (285 feet).

The area within 2 miles of Gainesville is covered by artificial surfaces (78%) and trees (15%), within 10 miles by herbaceous vegetation (39%) and trees (36%), and within 50 miles by trees (45%) and cropland (22%).