Florida’s a hot, stinky mess.
The Sunshine State is home to America’s three sweatiest cities — where dehydration and B.O. are year-round concerns.
West Palm Beach, Miami and Fort Myers are the hardest places to beat the heat, according to a new study by beverage company Waterboy.
Crunching climate data across 80 cities, the Texas-based brand developed “Hydration Demand Scores” based on heat index, average temperature, dew point and humidity, on a scale of zero to 100. The national average score is 17.5.
Of the top 10 cities, seven are in Florida.
Sweltering West Palm Beach — the city in most desperate need of deodorant — has a score of 58.9.
The city spends 54.1% of the year above the National Weather Service’s caution threshold of 80 degrees.
Miami and Fort Myers scored 51 and 46.4 respectively.
“I was just in Miami it was so hot. I couldn’t even wear makeup I was sweating so bad,” Daniella Cordova, 19, a New Yorker who visited the tropical city a few weeks ago, told The Post.
The fourth most drenched city is Honolulu, Hawaii, ranked at 46.4 on the hydration scale.
Melbourne, Florida — which landed in fifth place — has a score of 41.5. Tampa and Orlando have slightly more tolerable conditions and trailed close behind with respective scores of 40.7 and 37.4.
New Orleans came in eighth place with a score of 36.1, followed by Houston at 35.3.
In 10th place, Jacksonville earned a sweaty score of 31.9.
Among the top 10 most stifling cities, heat and humidity peak in August for all but Houston and Jacksonville, where the muggiest conditions hit hardest in July, according to the study.
“Places like Florida, the southeast, anywhere tropical, you’re going to have that higher humidity and thus a higher feel for the heat,” AccuWeather Meteorologist Carl Erickson told The Post.
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