Laurel Island enjoys moderate temperatures throughout the year, while still delivering the appeal of changing seasons.  At the peak of the winter (December to January), average daily low and high temperatures range from 45 to 65 degrees, respectively.  At the height of summer (June to July), average daily lows and highs range from 74 degrees to 90 degrees, respectively.

Laurel Island sits at the apex of the Georgia Bight, a graceful curve in the Atlantic Coast from North Carolina to southern Florida, where the coastline falls westward away from the Continental Shelf.  This phenomenon makes Laurel Island one of the westernmost locales on the Atlantic Coast and gives the area its gentle climate, phenomenal tides, and broad marshes.  This enviable geographic location also enables it to enjoy a very low incidence of direct hurricane activity.

Cumberland Island, with its sheer mass, and tremendous elevations, in some places sixty feet, provides Laurel Island and the Crooked River estuary with what is arguably the perfect natural barrier against inclement weather from the sea.  Lying behind the center, and widest part, of Cumberland, Laurel Island is far less exposed to storms than other nautically oriented places like Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard, Cape Hatteras, the Bahamas, and Key West.