Chokoloskee, Florida Weather
Chokoloskee, Florida — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast for Chokoloskee, Collier County.
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About Chokoloskee, Florida
Chokoloskee sprawls low and wide across the sun-baked earth where the mainland surrenders to the labyrinthine embrace of the Ten Thousand Islands. It lies 33.2 miles south-east of Golden Gate, FL (from Golden Gate, FL: bearing 141°T), and is situated 23.2 miles east-south-east of Marco Island. Salt-laced air, thick with the scent of mangrove and the distant promise of the Gulf, hangs heavy, caressing weathered clapboard homes that seem to lean into the prevailing breezes. The sky above is a vast canvas, often painted with the bruised purples and fiery oranges of an approaching tropical storm or the sharp, crystalline blue of a cloudless afternoon. Here, water dictates the landscape, its dark, tea-colored channels snaking through emerald-green sawgrass prairies and the dense, tangled roots of the coastal forests, a constant murmur of tides and unseen life. This is a place where history clings to the air like the humidity, a story whispered by the wind rustling through the palmettos and echoing in the creak of aging docks. For centuries, it was a refuge and a hunting ground for the Calusa people, their shell mounds standing as silent testaments to a vanished civilization. Later, the hardy souls who arrived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, drawn by the promise of fertile soil and abundant fishing, carved out a life from this wild edge of Florida, establishing Chokoloskee as a hub for commercial fishing and a gateway to the untamed Everglades. The small marina, a vital artery for the local economy, still bustles with the comings and goings of boats laden with their salty bounty, a rhythmic pulse in the otherwise tranquil existence of Chokoloskee.
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| Location | Chokoloskee, Collier County, Florida |
| Coordinates | 25.81288°N, 81.362023°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 34138 |
| Area Code | 305 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Chokoloskee, Florida Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Chokoloskee, Florida, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, real-time aviation weather (live METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport, with a modeled estimate shown when no station is in range), precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. Additional sections may include tide predictions, wave height, wave direction and sea-surface temperature, a barometric pressure trend, and a solunar-based fishing forecast with a fishing-conditions rating for coastal localities, and soil temperature, crop weather and live USGS river gauge data for agricultural areas near a monitored waterway. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Chokoloskee includes coordinates 25.812880°N, 81.362023°W, situated in Collier County. ZIP code 34138. Telephone area code: 305. Timezone: Eastern Time (America/New_York).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov (NOAA), with a modeled estimate used where no nearby reporting station is available. River and stream data is sourced from the USGS National Water Information System. Tide predictions are sourced from NOAA CO-OPS; marine and solunar data are modeled from Open-Meteo and public sunrise/moon calculations and should be treated as a general guide alongside on-the-water conditions. Radar is provided by RainViewer. Satellite imagery is sourced from NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East and is public domain.
