FORT LAUDERDALE, PORT RATON, PALM BEACH
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Fort Lauderdale, Port Raton and Palm Beach - just some dozen miles north Miami - are three major Florida's beach resort destinations.

Fort Lauderdale is a top world luxurious beach destination strongly centered in yatching. Port Raton is a sophisticated retirement center and also an important beach and tourist destination. Palm Beach - a small island a little more distant of Miami, but not very much - is a sophisticated and selected residential center, with luxurious hotels.


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Best time to visit & travel Fort Lauderdale, Port Raton and Palm Beach region
When not to go to Fort Lauderdale, Port Raton and Palm Beach region


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WHAT TO VISIT IN THE FORT LAUDERDALE, PORT RATON AND PALM BEACH REGION

Palm Beach, Boca Raton and Fort Lauderdale allow a lot of opportunities: the local beaches, museums, visits to notable cases of Mediterranean architecture, nightlife, cuisine...

Besides, from anyone of these destinations is easy to visit the others. Or visit Miami, and its attractions. Or even the Everglades National Park, or the Florida Keys, in the west coast. The distances are relatively small.

See Florida Travel Destinations Map.


BEST TIME TO TRAVEL TO FORT LAUDERDALE, PORT RATON AND PALM BEACH REGION

Winter (December-March) is the best time to travel to Fort Lauderdale, Port Raton and Pal Beach Region, and the most popular. Temperatures are high and agreeable, but not too high.

But winter has larger throngs and higher accommodation costs, and you may prefer transitional months as April and May, or September to November. They are also excellent periods to visit Fort Lauderdale, Port Raton and Pal Beach Region. «Spring» and «Autumn» months have very pleasant weather and hotel rates are much lower than during winter.

For those who don't mind to support lots of humidity and daily afternoon rainfalls, the summer period is an alternative: the rewards are, obviously, in hotel rates and smaller crowds.

Some additional notes:

- June to October is the hurricane period, but the authorities track carefully the storms and you will be noticed to evacuate, if there is the need.

- Afternoon summer's thunderstorms are very often in Fort Lauderdale, Port Raton and Pal Beach Region.

- It rains less in winter than in summer, but showers tend to be short and cause minimum effects in vacations. See Miami Weather Table.

- Especially packed days, weeks and weekends: Presidents' Day weekend (February), Easter week, Memorial Day weekend (end of May), the Fourth of July, Labour Day weekend (September), Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's.

- Eventual winter cold snaps last only a few days.


WHEN NOT TO GO TO FORT LAUDERDALE, PORT RATON AND PALM BEACH REGION

If you want to avoid the hurricane season, then don't go to Fort Lauderdale, Port Raton and Pal Beach region from June to October.

Avoid popular periods, if you want to avoid crowds (though Fort Lauderdale, Port Raton and Pal Beach regions tend to be rather unpacked and reasonably selective destinations): winter period, Presidents' Day weekend (February), Easter week, Memorial Day weekend (end of May), the Fourth of July, Labour Day weekend (September), Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's.

If you want to bet in low accommodation prices, then avoid the winter period, especially the November-March period.

For details on precipitation, temperatures, humidity and other weather variables, see Miami Weather Table.


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