Cypress Gardens, Florida Weather
Cypress Gardens, Florida — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast for Cypress Gardens, Polk County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Cypress Gardens. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Cypress Gardens is published on the Winter Haven Regional Airport - Gilbert Field (KGIF) page, 10 km away. It carries the current METAR decoded into plain language — surface wind, visibility, cloud layers and ceiling, temperature and dewpoint, and altimeter setting — alongside the raw observation as transmitted. 6 airfields within reach of Cypress Gardens have their own pages, listed below.
The Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF) is shown across its full validity period, with each change group broken out so you can see when conditions are expected to shift. Flight category is derived automatically — VFR, MVFR, IFR or LIFR — from reported ceiling and visibility, with runway details and field elevation alongside. Observations update roughly hourly and forecasts several times a day.
Other airports near Cypress Gardens: Bartow Executive Airport (KBOW) 11 km · Lake Wales Municipal Airport (KX07) 13 km · Lakeland Linder International Airport (KLAL) 32 km · South Lakeland Airport (KX49) 35 km · Kissimmee Gateway Airport (KISM) 41 km
Conditions reported at KGIF describe the airfield itself. Weather 10 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Cypress Gardens specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
About Cypress Gardens, Florida
Cypress Gardens, in its prime, was a kingdom of emerald and sapphire, where water lily pads, broad as dinner plates, floated on mirrors of ink-dark water, fringed by the elegant, stoic silhouettes of cypress trees. It lies 3.3 miles south-east of Winter Haven, FL (from Winter Haven, FL: bearing 127°T), and is situated 9.4 miles south-south-west of Haines City. The air, thick with the perfume of blooming azaleas and the subtle, earthy scent of peat, hummed with the low drone of unseen insects and the occasional, startling splash of a leaping fish. Sunlight, filtered through the dense canopy, painted shifting mosaics of gold and green upon the winding pathways, illuminating the vibrant hues of orchids and bromeliads that clung to ancient branches. The very ground seemed to breathe, a soft, yielding loam that whispered of centuries of growth and decay, a gentle, unhurried respiration beneath the vast, often dramatic, Florida sky. This land, once a testament to the vision of its creators who sought to capture the wild, untamed beauty of Florida's natural waterways, evolved into a celebrated destination, drawing visitors eager for its tranquil vistas and meticulously cultivated gardens. For decades, Cypress Gardens thrived on the allure of its water ski shows, a spectacle of athleticism and grace performed against a backdrop of breathtaking botanical artistry, becoming a significant draw for the region's burgeoning tourism economy. Though its chapter as a grand amusement park has passed, the spirit of its connection to the land endures, a reminder of a time when the careful curation of nature's splendor offered a unique form of enchantment, its legacy whispered in the rustling leaves and the quiet flow of the surrounding waters.
Live animated radar for Cypress Gardens and surroundings — RainViewer.
NOAA GOES-16 GEOCOLOR — live animated loop updated every 10 minutes. Shows cloud cover, storm systems and weather patterns across the continental US.
Source: NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East · Public domain · Auto-updates on page reload
| Location | Cypress Gardens, Polk County, Florida |
| Coordinates | 27.993911°N, 81.690078°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 33884 |
| Area Code | 561 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Cypress Gardens, Florida Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Cypress Gardens, Florida, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. Aviation weather — live METAR observations and TAF forecasts — is published separately on the pages for the nearest reporting airports, linked from the aviation section above. 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 Cypress Gardens includes coordinates 27.993911°N, 81.690078°W, situated in Polk County. ZIP code 33884. Telephone area code: 561. Timezone: Eastern Time (America/New_York).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. 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.
