Soilclock

Florida 76°F soil temperature

Updated Nov 4, 2026, 7:41 AM EST

The middle reading of 16 Florida cities, 2 inches down, on Nov 3. Pick a city for its forecast and lawn calendar.

Florida cities today

Estimated daily average soil temperature at 2 inches, the difference from normal for the date, and the change over the last week. Florida spans warm-season grass country.

City2 in4 invs normal7 daysCrabgrass windowFall seeding ends
Jacksonville 75°75° +5°+6° No clear window –
Miami 80°81° +2°+1° No clear window –
Tampa 77°78° +3°+2° No clear window –
Orlando 76°78° +4°+2° No clear window –
Port St. Lucie 76°78° +3°+1° No clear window –
Cape Coral 77°79° +3°+1° No clear window –
Tallahassee 74°74° +9°+8° early Feb – Feb 20 –
Fort Lauderdale 78°80° +1°+1° No clear window –
Gainesville 75°75° +8°+6° early Feb – Feb 15 –
Palm Bay 76°78° +3°±0° No clear window –
West Palm Beach 78°80° +2°+1° No clear window –
Lakeland 76°78° +3°+2° No clear window –
Palm Coast 76°77° +5°+2° No clear window –
Deltona 76°77° +5°+2° No clear window –
North Port 77°78° +3°+1° No clear window –
Delray Beach 78°80° +1°+1° No clear window –

When to apply pre-emergent in Florida

Crabgrass pre-emergent goes down when 2-inch soil holds about 50°F. Across Florida that has typically happened first in Tallahassee, around Feb 1, and last in Gainesville, around Feb 1. The window closes when soil holds 55°F and crabgrass starts sprouting.

What grows in Florida lawns

Crabgrass is the weed spring pre-emergents are timed for. Lawns here are mostly warm-season grasses such as bermuda.

Large crabgrass with its spreading finger-like seed heads
Large crabgrass in seed. Each plant can drop thousands of seeds that wait for warm spring soil.
Close view of a Kentucky bluegrass lawn
Kentucky bluegrass, the most common cool-season lawn grass in the northern US.
A low mat of bermudagrass with fine blades and seed heads
Bermudagrass, the warm-season grass behind most lawns from the Carolinas to Texas.

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