Port St. Joe, Florida Weather
Port St. Joe, Florida — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast, soil and crop conditions for Port St. Joe, Gulf County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Port St. Joe. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Port St. Joe is published on the Costin Airport (KA51) page, 6 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. 5 airfields within reach of Port St. Joe 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 Port St. Joe: Apalachicola Regional Airport (KAAF) 28 km · Tyndall Air Force Base (KPAM) 39 km · St George Island Airport (KF47) 42 km · Carrabelle Thompson Airport (KX13) 58 km
Conditions reported at KA51 describe the airfield itself. Weather 6 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Port St. Joe specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Port St. Joe.
About Port St. Joe, Florida
Port St. Joe exhales a slow, salty breath onto the Gulf Coast, a place where the emerald green of the pine forests surrenders to the pale shimmer of sand and the vast, shifting blue of the Gulf. It lies 32.1 miles south-east of Panama City, FL (from Panama City, FL: bearing 138°T), and is situated 11.7 miles south-east of Mexico Beach. The air itself feels thick with the scent of sea salt and the faint, sweet perfume of pine needles, a constant reminder of the wildness that presses in from all sides. Along the waterfront, weathered pilings stand like stoic sentinels, their barnacle-encrusted surfaces telling tales of tides and seasons. The sunlight here, especially in the late afternoon, has a molten quality, bleaching the clapboard of the houses to a soft, sun-bleached white and casting long, languid shadows that stretch across the quiet streets. The landscape is a gentle embrace, a low-lying plain where the land seems to lean into the water, its curves soft and inviting. The history of Port St. Joe is a narrative of cycles, of booms and busts tied to the bounty of the sea and the land. Once envisioned as a major port city, its ambitions were tempered by the vagaries of nature and commerce, leaving behind a character of resilient, unhurried grace. The local economy, though diversified, still hums with the rhythm of fishing boats returning with their hauls and the quiet industry of timber. The St. Joseph Peninsula State Park, a sliver of pure, untamed barrier island, offers a stark and beautiful counterpoint to the settled parts of Port St. Joe, protecting dunes that whisper with the wind and attract a parade of shorebirds. This coastal stretch, with its shallow, warm waters and the occasional flash of a dolphin fin, retains a palpable connection to its past, a quiet testament to the enduring allure of the Gulf.
Live animated radar for Port St. Joe 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 | Port St. Joe, Gulf County, Florida |
| Coordinates | 29.811876°N, 85.302974°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 32456 |
| Area Code | 850 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Port St. Joe, Florida Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Port St. Joe, 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 Port St. Joe includes coordinates 29.811876°N, 85.302974°W, situated in Gulf County. ZIP code 32456. Telephone area code: 850. 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.
