Best beach in the Florida Keys today

Today's best beach in the Florida Keys is Fort Zachary Taylor (Key West), with a ShoreScore of 89 out of 100: Definitely Go.

Warm air and water and calm surf.

Next: Key West (Smathers) at 88, Marathon (Sombrero) at 87 and Harry Harris Park (Key Largo South) at 73.

See the full day and best window for Fort Zachary Taylor (Key West)

All 9 beaches in the Florida Keys, ranked

Highest ShoreScore first. The word is the call the app makes at that score.

1. 1Fort Zachary Taylor (Key West)Florida Keys · official notice in effectDefinitely Go.89
2. 2Key West (Smathers)Florida KeysDefinitely Go.88
3. 3Marathon (Sombrero)Florida Keys · official notice in effectDefinitely Go.87
4. 4Harry Harris Park (Key Largo South)Florida KeysGo.73
5. 5Key Largo (Pennekamp)Florida Keys · official notice in effectGo.73
6. 6Bahia HondaFlorida KeysRoll the Dice?62
7. 7Higgs Beach (Key West)Florida KeysRoll the Dice?61
8. 8Coco Plum Beach (Marathon)Florida Keys · official notice in effectRoll the Dice?60
9. 9Islamorada (Anne’s Beach)Florida KeysRoll the Dice?57

An official notice means the National Weather Service or the county has something posted for that beach; open the beach for the details.

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How this list works

Every beach in the Florida Keys gets one ShoreScore, a number from 0 to 100 that says how good a beach day it is. It comes from live weather, wind, surf, official water quality tests, the seaweed risk and rain radar, added up from now until sunset. Before sunrise and after dark it covers the whole day's light instead.

The words are the same call the app makes at each score: Definitely Go, Go, Roll the Dice, Maybe Not and Pass. When no beach reaches Go, this page says so instead of crowning a winner.

This list ranks the same numbers the live map shows, read at the time printed at the top. A beach with missing data is left out, never scored low: unknown is not bad. Open any beach for its hour by hour forecast and the best window to go.

Informational only, not for safety decisions. Lifeguards, beach flags and official notices come first at every beach, whatever the number says.

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