When is peak fall color at Canaveral National Seashore?

Our forecast puts peak color at Canaveral National Seashore around 21 Nov. The four days to aim for are 20 to 23 Nov. We publish our error rate.

Canaveral National Seashore Fall Foliage: 2026 Peak Color Forecast

Q: What trees turn color at Canaveral National Seashore?

Sweetgum, Red Maple, Bald Cypress, Hickory, Dogwood. 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.

Peak color, most of the stand21 NovAim for 20 to 23 Nov

In the seashore today, Sep 25Still green

water oak and blackgum

sweetgum, peak Nov 29

Peak color should arrive around 19 Nov for the water oak and blackgum, and around 29 Nov for the sweetgum.

Roadsides and wetland edges turn first, and the woods behind them run a few days later.

Weather Wind to 35 mph Friday. Color may come down before it turns.

No new reports from the ground here this week.

Still greenStartingNearly peakPeakPast peakNo fall canopy we forecastInside the line, each band of elevation is painted on its own date.

Around Canaveral National Seashore Nearly all of the seashore is in Volusia County, which is still green today. Brevard County, to the south, is 2 days behind.

By elevation The seashore runs from about -3 to 8 feet. It turns together: there isn’t enough relief here for the color to come down in stages.

0–1,000 ftStill greenpeak Nov 2132%
-1,000–0 ftStill greenpeak Nov 2168%

Height off 3DEP inside the seashore’s own boundary; each band carries the date our model gives that elevation, corrections and all. The percentage is how much of the seashore stands in it.

That’s 2 days later than our model alone would say. This September has been running warm, which shifts peak color.

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Friday 20 November to Saturday 21 November

You’ll find it peak color.

That's the day our forecast puts peak color here.

0–1,000 ftPeak colorpeak Nov 21
-1,000–0 ftPeak colorpeak Nov 21

What turns: water oak, blackgum, sweetgum, white oak, bald cypress

What turns, and when

water oak38%
blackgum20%
sweetgum20%
white oak18%
bald cypress3%

Also named across Florida, outside what the canopy read measures here: Red Maple, Hickory, Dogwood.

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.

This forecast is built from the species that stand here, their elevation and this September’s weather, and corrected in season by cameras, foresters and our own crew. We score it here against 7 long-running forest cameras: two dates in three land within 13 days of the camera’s own peak. How this map is made

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