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Florida Fall Foliage Map 2026

Forecast issued 25 Sep, 3:53pm ET

Photograph: More Than Just Parks

Peak color lands around Nov 20 in most of Florida, but it moves 13 days across the state. Here’s where, and when, and how sure we are.

Florida’s season, place by place

The 24 places closest to their peak in Florida, each set on the calendar at its peak and painted by how far along it is today, Sep 25.

First: Gulf Islands National Seashore, Nov 15. Last: Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge, Nov 21.

The dashed rule is today; the solid one is the median of the places on this chart, Nov 18. The date at the top of the page is the median county, which includes the low ground between them.

The county map today

Gulf Islands National SeashoreOkefenokeeApalachicolaOsceolaTimucuan Ecological and Historic PreserveBig Gum Swamp WildernessMud Swamp/New River WildernessSilver Lake Recreation AreaWright Lake Recreation AreaLost Lake Recreation Area
Florida, Sep 25 Still green to peak to past peak, the map’s own scale. Open the live map to scrub the day.

Where to go in Florida

The destinations we cover in Florida, in the order their color arrives. Each carries its own forecast and its own band, because a state isn’t one place.

  1. Gulf Islands National SeashoreFlorida, Mississippi
    Too earlyPeak 15 Nov best 14 to 17 Nov
  2. Okefenokee National Wildlife RefugeFlorida, Georgia
    Too earlyPeak 17 Nov, sweetgum 25 Nov best 16 to 19 Nov
  3. Apalachicola National ForestFlorida
    Too earlyPeak 18 Nov, sweetgum 26 Nov best 17 to 20 Nov
  4. Osceola National ForestFlorida
    Too earlyPeak 18 Nov, sweetgum 26 Nov best 17 to 20 Nov
  5. Timucuan Ecological and Historic PreserveFlorida
    Too earlyPeak 18 Nov, sweetgum 26 Nov best 17 to 20 Nov
  6. Big Gum Swamp WildernessFlorida
    Too earlyPeak 18 Nov, sweetgum 26 Nov best 17 to 20 Nov
  7. Mud Swamp/New River WildernessFlorida
    Too earlyPeak 18 Nov, sweetgum 26 Nov best 17 to 20 Nov
  8. Silver Lake Recreation AreaFlorida
    Too earlyPeak 18 Nov, sweetgum 26 Nov best 17 to 20 Nov
  9. Wright Lake Recreation AreaFlorida
    Too earlyPeak 18 Nov, sweetgum 26 Nov best 17 to 20 Nov
  10. Lost Lake Recreation AreaFlorida
    Too earlyPeak 18 Nov, sweetgum 25 Nov best 17 to 20 Nov
  11. Cedar Keys WildernessFlorida
    Too earlyPeak 18 Nov best 17 to 20 Nov
  12. Fort Matanzas National MonumentFlorida
    Too earlyPeak 18 Nov best 17 to 20 Nov
  13. Trout Pond Recreation AreaFlorida
    Too earlyPeak 18 Nov, sweetgum 25 Nov best 17 to 20 Nov
  14. St. Marks National Wildlife RefugeFlorida
    Too earlyPeak 19 Nov, sweetgum 27 Nov best 18 to 21 Nov
  15. St. Vincent National Wildlife RefugeFlorida
    Too earlyPeak 19 Nov, sweetgum 26 Nov best 18 to 21 Nov
  16. Bradwell Bay WildernessFlorida
    Too earlyPeak 19 Nov, sweetgum 28 Nov best 18 to 21 Nov
  17. St. Marks WildernessFlorida
    Too earlyPeak 19 Nov, sweetgum 27 Nov best 18 to 21 Nov
  18. Cedar Keys National Wildlife RefugeFlorida
    Too earlyPeak 19 Nov best 18 to 21 Nov
  19. Morrison Hammock Scenic AreaFlorida
    Too earlyPeak 19 Nov, sweetgum 27 Nov best 18 to 21 Nov
  20. Fort Caroline National MemorialFlorida
    Too earlyPeak 19 Nov, sweetgum 27 Nov best 18 to 21 Nov
  21. Ocala National ForestFlorida
    Too earlyPeak 20 Nov, sweetgum 28 Nov best 19 to 22 Nov
  22. Juniper Prairie WildernessFlorida
    Too earlyPeak 20 Nov, sweetgum 28 Nov best 19 to 22 Nov
  23. Little Lake George WildernessFlorida
    Too earlyPeak 20 Nov, sweetgum 28 Nov best 19 to 22 Nov
  24. Lower Suwannee National Wildlife RefugeFlorida
    Too earlyPeak 21 Nov, sweetgum 29 Nov best 20 to 23 Nov

Also forecast in FloridaBiscayne National ParkCanaveral National SeashoreDry Tortugas National ParkEverglades National ParkEverglades National Park Expansion

When to go

Across 67 counties, peak color is forecast to arrive first in Okaloosa County around Nov 17 and last in Miami-Dade County around Nov 30. Most of the state peaks near Nov 20.

Each date is the middle of the four days we’d aim a trip at, and each place page names them. We score the model against 7 long-running forest monitoring sites in this part of the country and publish what it got wrong.

This autumn is running 1 day late in Florida. September has run warmer than the 1991 to 2020 normal so far, and the dates above already include that. It’s a real signal but a modest one: temperature explains under a tenth of how much peak color moves year to year.

Late November through December in the Panhandle, spotty elsewhere is how Florida is usually described.

What actually turns

Bald cypresses turn russet and copper along the rivers, sweetgums provide scattered red and purple, and the maples in the Panhandle produce pockets of real color.

  • Sweetgum
  • Red Maple
  • Bald Cypress
  • Hickory
  • Dogwood

Torreya State Park in the Panhandle, on the bluffs above the Apalachicola River, is the only place in Florida that feels like a real Appalachian fall.

Every county, by peak week

Latitude does most of the work here: color moves south at about two days per degree, so the north of the state turns a week or more ahead of the south.

Nov 17

Calhoun, Jackson, Okaloosa

Nov 18 to Nov 24

Alachua, Baker, Bay, Bradford, Brevard, Citrus, Clay, Columbia, Dixie, Duval, Escambia, Flagler, Franklin, Gadsden, Gilchrist, Gulf, Hamilton, Hernando, Hillsborough, Holmes, Indian River, Jefferson, Lafayette, Lake, Leon, Levy, Liberty, Madison, Marion, Nassau, Orange, Osceola, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Putnam, Santa Rosa, Seminole, St. Johns, Sumter, Suwannee, Taylor, Union, Volusia, Wakulla, Walton, Washington

Nov 25 to Nov 30

Broward, Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Glades, Hardee, Hendry, Highlands, Lee, Manatee, Martin, Miami-Dade, Monroe, Okeechobee, Palm Beach, Sarasota, St. Lucie

How this map is madeThe trees, the elevation, this September’s weather and reports from the ground, scored against 68 forest cameras. Median error 6 days.

Every date on this site is a forecast: a model corrected by ground reports, carrying a measured error, published in full. Check conditions with the land manager before you travel. Last reviewed September 2026. Open the live map