DE LEON SPRINGS · FLORIDA · JUNE
June is the month the wet season takes over in De Leon Springs. The NOAA normal for the month runs an average high of 90.7°F and an average low of 73.4°F, with 8.17 inches of rain falling across 11.8 days that record at least a tenth of an inch. Those numbers come off a gauge rather than out of the swim area, and where that thermometer stands turns out to matter.
Against the rain, the light: 14 hours and 2 minutes of daylight on June 15, sun up at 6:25 a.m. and down at 8:26 p.m. That is within minutes of the year’s maximum, and it is the strongest practical argument for booking June instead of waiting for the dry season to come back around.
THE MONTH AT A GLANCE · DE LEON SPRINGS · JUNE
June buys you the longest days of the year and pays for them with rain on roughly two days in five: go for early mornings in the water and keep the afternoons flexible.
AVERAGE HIGH 90.7°F · 11.8 WET DAYS · 14H02 OF DAYLIGHT ON JUNE 15
Go for: early swims, long evenings, and a spring run that stays cool while the air climbs past 90°F.
Think twice before: planning a rigid afternoon, or booking a non-refundable stay without reading the tropics: the Atlantic hurricane season opens June 1.
Normals: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020, station USW00012841 · Daylight: sunrise-sunset.org · full sources at the end
On this page
- De Leon Springs weather in June90.7°F days, 8.17 inches, 11.8 wet days
- How hot it gets by afternoonA 17.3°F spread between day and night
- Crowds and costs in a June weekendHurricane season, booking and what we could not price
- Things to do in De Leon Springs in JuneThe state park, the sugar mill griddle house, Lake Woodruff
- A two-day plan around the heatTwo days that start at 6:25 a.m.
- June or May or July?How the three months compare, degree by degree
- Is June a good time to go?Who should book it, who should shift
Anything that holds true all year, from where to sleep to what a Florida week costs, lives in our where-to-stay guide and the trip-cost breakdown. Below is what the date itself does.
De Leon Springs weather in June: average highs, lows and rain days
| June normal | Value |
|---|---|
| Average high | 90.7°F |
| Average low | 73.4°F |
| Total precipitation | 8.17 in |
| Days with 0.10 in or more | 11.8 |
| Days with 1.00 in or more | 2.9 |
| Daylight on June 15 | 14h 02m · 6:25 a.m. to 8:26 p.m. |
Every figure here comes from NOAA NCEI’s 1991-2020 monthly normals for station USW00012841, a physical gauge rather than a modeled grid cell, and the difference between those two kinds of number can run several degrees on the overnight low. One caveat travels with the reading: that station also serves Blue Spring in the same DeLand area, so treat 90.7°F as the June air over this stretch of central Florida and not as a measurement taken at the edge of the run.
Rain on 11.8 days out of 30 means measurable water roughly two days in five, and 2.9 of those days bring an inch or more, so about three times in the month the rain arrives in inches rather than minutes. Central Florida loads most of it into the afternoon and evening, the pattern our Florida timing guide calls the wet season. A morning hour in June is simply worth more than an afternoon one.
The gap between the average high and the average low is 17.3°F, which is a narrow swing by American standards. Nothing in a June bag needs to be warm. Pack two swimsuits so one is always dry, a rain shell light enough to shove in a daypack, water shoes for limestone and roots, and a change of shirt for the drive home. A fleece will ride along untouched.
On June 15 the sun comes up at 6:25 a.m. and sets at 8:26 p.m., 14 hours and 2 minutes apart. Dinner still happens in daylight. So does a post-swim walk, and the drive back toward DeLand or Orlando if you leave at seven. That late finish is the part of June no winter visit can reproduce.
How warm is De Leon Springs in June?
The two headline numbers are averages of daily extremes: 90.7°F is the mean of the month’s daily maxima, 73.4°F the mean of its daily minima, so neither is a temperature you sit in for long. The true midday reading on a clear June day sits above the first figure and the 5 a.m. reading below the second, with 17.3°F between the two poles.
In practice that means one wardrobe, worn at two different speeds. Early, at something close to 73°F with the humidity still parked overhead, a T-shirt is comfortable and the parking lot is quiet. By two in the afternoon the same outfit is a wet rag, and the sensible move is either to be in the water or under a roof with a fan. Sunscreen goes on before the first swim, not after the second.
Freezing is not a June question in Volusia County: the normals here put the monthly low at 73.4°F, and we read no count of sub-freezing nights for June in the NOAA record we checked. The precaution that does apply runs the other way. Heat and humidity together are what send day visitors home early, and the fix is a start time rather than a jacket.
How busy is De Leon Springs in June? Crowds, prices and the demand peak
June sits at an awkward hinge in the Florida calendar. It is the first full month of school vacation, when the springs become a regional weekend destination for Orlando and Jacksonville families, and it is also the opening month of the Atlantic hurricane season, June 1 through November 30, which is why fall rates soften. We found no occupancy series and no monthly room-rate series for this part of Volusia County, so we crown no month expensive and no month cheap.
What the calendar does support is a booking habit: choose a Tuesday over a Saturday, and if a June weekend is your only window, lock the room in DeLand or on the Orlando side several weeks out rather than the night before. Capacity at Florida spring parks is a parking question before it is a swimming one, and we could not verify the lot size at De Leon Springs State Park or the point at which it closes to new arrivals, so treat opening time as the reservation you cannot make online.
We could not verify the Volusia County lodging-tax rate, so we give no percentage here. Build the budget the way our Florida cost guide does, with room, rental car, fuel and parking on separate lines, and read the tax line on the confirmation as money on top of the nightly rate rather than inside it.
The one place where spending more genuinely changes a June trip is the distance between your bed and the park gate. A closer room turns the 7 a.m. start into a short drive and turns a 3 p.m. downpour into a quick retreat to air conditioning instead of an hour on wet interstate. Everything else, from the car class to the restaurant, moves the month far less; our getting-around guide covers the rental and toll side.
Things to do in De Leon Springs in June
The light is the June-only asset. With sunset at 8:26 p.m., a late swim, a picnic and an unhurried drive home all fit after the heat of the day has peaked, and the parking lot thins long before the sky does. In January that same sequence ends in the dark, which is why winter visitors here run their day in reverse and finish at lunch.
The anchor is De Leon Springs State Park, with its swim area, its spring run and the Old Spanish Sugar Mill Griddle House inside the park, where the tables carry their own griddles and you cook the pancakes yourself. West of town, Lake Woodruff National Wildlife Refuge opens onto dikes and paddling water. South toward Orange City, Blue Spring State Park shares the same gauge and the same weather. We could not verify current admission prices, opening hours or the temperature of the spring water, so we give no dollar figure and no degree for the parks themselves.
What June changes at those places is the air, not the water. A Florida spring holds close to the same temperature all year while the air around it climbs from May’s 88.2°F average high to June’s 90.7°F, and that widening gap is the whole sensation of a summer swim here. The manatees that make Blue Spring famous are a cold-season story, covered in our manatee guide, and June is the half of the year when the run belongs to swimmers instead.
On the free side, we could not confirm a fee-free day at either state park in June, so we promise none. Sunrise at 6:25 a.m. costs nothing, and the first hour after it runs closest to the 73.4°F overnight average, which is the most usable hour the month hands out.
De Leon Springs in June: a two-day itinerary
Day one starts before the heat. Be moving by 7 a.m., an hour after sunrise, and be at the gate when it opens. Swim first, eat pancakes at the griddle house second, and keep the strenuous part of the day, the paddle or the loop trail, finished by noon. Take the 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. block indoors on purpose, in DeLand or back at the room, since those are the hours the 2.9 heavy-rain days of the month tend to claim. Return to the water at five, and drive out in full daylight at eight.
Day two repeats the early start and swaps the destination: Lake Woodruff for birds and open water, or Blue Spring for a second swim and a different boardwalk. If the sky turns, the swap is easy, because rain on 11.8 days a month makes a backup a routine part of a June trip rather than an emergency. Move the swim to the morning, put the museum, the lunch or the drive into the wet hours, and expect the sun back before 8:26 p.m.
De Leon Springs in June vs May and July
| Normal | May | June | July |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 88.2°F | 90.7°F | 91.9°F |
| Average low | 68.7°F | 73.4°F | 75.0°F |
| Precipitation | 3.66 in | 8.17 in | 8.07 in |
| Days with 0.10 in or more | 5.3 | 11.8 | 11.9 |
The step from May to June is a rain step, not a heat step: 2.5°F on the daytime high, but 3.66 inches becoming 8.17, and 5.3 wet days becoming 11.8. June to July barely moves at all. July adds 1.2°F to the high and 1.6°F to the low, records 8.07 inches against June’s 8.17, and counts 11.9 wet days against 11.8. By the middle of June you are already in the summer pattern that holds through the end of July.
Shift four weeks earlier and you gain the dry half of spring, with less than half the wet days and nights averaging 68.7°F instead of 73.4°F, and you lose a little evening light and a little of the air-to-water contrast that makes a spring swim feel like relief. Shift four weeks later and you gain almost nothing on rain while adding heat to every hour outdoors. Our May page makes the earlier case in full.
Is June a good time to visit De Leon Springs?
Yes for swimmers, for families tied to the school calendar, and for anyone who wants a long evening at the end of the day. No for hikers planning long afternoons, for photographers who need reliable clear skies, and for travelers who cannot rearrange a day when 2.9 inch-plus rain days are in the deck. The deciding question is whether your plan can move by three hours on short notice.
If the answer is no, take May. Rain falls on 5.3 days instead of 11.8, the high sits at 88.2°F, and the nights run nearly five degrees cooler, which makes the non-swimming parts of a visit far more pleasant. April and October are the other directions worth checking in the statewide calendar before you commit to a date.
What June alone delivers is the combination of 90.7°F air and 14 hours of daylight, so the cool water feels its best at exactly the hour you still have four hours of sun left to spend.
The last word
Book the earliest arrival you can stand and treat the rest as flexible, because the month’s arithmetic is kinder than its reputation: with 11.8 days recording a tenth of an inch or more, about eighteen days at that gauge record less than that. The rain in June is frequent, short and largely in the afternoon, and the swim you came for happens before it. Set the alarm for 6 a.m. and let the storm have the hours you were going to waste anyway.
Sources & data for this guide
- June normals, average high 90.7°F, average low 73.4°F, 8.17 inches · NOAA NCEI monthly normals 1991-2020, station USW00012841 · checked Sep 24, 2026
- Rain-day counts, 11.8 days at 0.10 inch or more and 2.9 days at 1.00 inch or more · NOAA NCEI monthly normals 1991-2020 · checked Sep 24, 2026
- May and July normals used in the comparison · NOAA NCEI 1991-2020, same station and same period · checked Sep 24, 2026
- Daylight of 14h 02m, sunrise 6:25 a.m. and sunset 8:26 p.m. on June 15, converted from UTC to local time · sunrise-sunset.org · checked Sep 24, 2026
- Where the thermometer stands: station USW00012841 also serves Blue Spring in the same DeLand area, so the figures describe the regional air rather than the swim area itself.
- We found no occupancy series, no monthly room-rate series and no verified lodging-tax rate for Volusia County, so we rank no month by price and give no percentage. We also could not verify park admission, hours or the water temperature of the spring run · check the operator before you drive.
To plan your stay
- Best Time to Visit De Leon Springs, Month by Month: Highs, Rain and the Quiet Weeks
- De Leon Springs in May: Weather, Rain Days and How It Compares to April and June
- De Leon Springs in July: Weather, Rain Days, Crowds and a Two-Day Plan
- De Leon Springs in April: Weather, Rain Days and How It Compares to March and May