Madison Blue Spring in June: Water Temperature, Rain Days and What the Park Lists

FLORIDA · MADISON BLUE SPRING · JUNE

Two temperatures decide a June day at Madison Blue Spring, and they never meet. The air above the state park averages a 90.1°F high for the month. The water leaving the vent read 73.2°F (22.9°C) on the USGS gauge, and it reads close to that every day of the year, because a spring has no season. What June changes is the 16.9°F gap between the two.

June also brings the rain back: 7.08 inches across the month, against 2.84 inches in May. That is the whole June bargain, warm air over cold water and a sky that interrupts. The undated parts of the trip, where to sleep, what a Florida week costs and how the drive works, live in our lodging guide, the cost page and getting around Florida.

On this page

• June highs, lows and rain days90.1°F, 67.9°F and 8.4 wet days
• How warm the air and the water are73.2°F water, 22.2°F of daily air swing
• Entrance fee, crowds and booking in JuneWhat we verified, and the two numbers we could not
• Things to do at the spring in JuneThe vent, 72 cubic feet per second, and no marked swim zone
• A two-day plan around the heat6:29 a.m. start, 8:38 p.m. sunset
• June against May and July86.4°F, 90.1°F, 92.1°F and the rain that goes with them
• Is June a good month to come?Yes for mornings, no for fixed dates

For everything that is not dated, the park itself, the road in and the shape of a visit, start with our Madison Blue Spring guide. Last month’s figures sit in May. The normals below are June’s alone.

Madison Blue Spring weather in June: average highs, lows and rain days

Every air figure here comes from one place: the NOAA NCEI monthly normals for 1991 to 2020, station USW00093845 at Valdosta Regional Airport in Georgia, about 27 miles (44 km) from the spring. That is a real thermometer at a real airport rather than a reanalysis grid cell, and it is the closest long record we found. June there averages a 90.1°F high, a 67.9°F low and 7.08 inches of rain. Those numbers describe the air. The water keeps its own.

An average June records measurable rain, 0.10 inch or more, on 8.4 days, about 28 percent of the month. Seven inches arriving in roughly eight sittings means loads rather than drizzle. Florida’s wet season is already running by June, and the rain tends to build through the afternoon rather than sit all day, a pattern our statewide calendar lays out. Plan the drive, the picnic and the second swim around the morning, and let the afternoon take the weather.

The distance between 90.1°F and 67.9°F is 22.2°F, and it lands inside a single day. Dawn is pleasant here. Two in the afternoon is not. Pack for both ends: sun cover for fourteen hours of light, a dry shirt for after the water, and shoes you are happy to soak. A towel that actually dries matters more in June than any other item in the bag, because you will use it two or three times before the drive home.

June 15 runs 14 hours 09 minutes of daylight, sunrise at 6:29 a.m. and sunset at 8:38 p.m. local time, per sunrise-sunset.org. That is the longest light of the year to within a few minutes, and it decides what a day trip can hold: arrive at seven and you are out of the heat by eleven, or come in late afternoon and still get two usable hours. Sunset that late also puts the drive back in daylight.

How warm is Madison Blue Spring in June?

June’s two poles are 90.1°F and 67.9°F, a 22.2°F spread. The spring sits between them and ignores both: 73.2°F (22.9°C) at the vent, with 72 cubic feet per second coming out, measured at USGS station 02319302. That is a single instantaneous reading taken on September 11, 2026, not a monthly average, and the gauge holds near that figure through the year. So the answer depends on which temperature you mean. The air swings 22 degrees in a day. The water does not swing at all.

At 6:29 a.m. the water is about five degrees warmer than the air, so the first entry of the day is the gentle one. By mid-afternoon the arithmetic flips: air at 90.1°F makes 73.2°F feel sharp for ten seconds and excellent after that, and it makes the walk back to the car the part you dress for. Carry a hat, a rash guard if you burn, and more drinking water than a 90-degree day appears to ask for.

Freezing nights are not a June question in this corner of Florida. We hold monthly normals only, with no count of cold nights, so we publish no frost number. A normal low of 67.9°F is a comfort figure rather than a hazard, and it runs 2.2°F under July’s 70.1°F. That small margin is what makes the last hour before the 8:38 p.m. sunset the most comfortable stretch of a June day.

How busy is Madison Blue Spring in June? Crowds, prices and the demand peak

We found no occupancy series and no monthly room rates for this part of north Florida, so we crown no month expensive and rank nothing. What the calendar says is public and dated: June is the first full month of school vacation, and Florida’s hurricane season opens June 1 and runs to November 30, a statewide matter handled in our month-by-month calendar. Neither fact prices a room. Both change who shares the road with you on a June weekend.

The part to book is the bed, and it is not at the spring: we could not verify any camping, cabin or overnight facility here, so treat June as a day out from a base chosen with our Florida lodging guide. For a summer weekend, two to three weeks of lead time is the usual comfort margin in Florida (est.). A Tuesday in June needs no lead time beyond a fuel stop and a cooler.

We could not verify the county lodging-tax rate, so no percentage comes from us. We could not verify an entrance fee either: floridastateparks.org returned a 403 to our automated reads on September 11, 2026, and fees vary by park and by season, so a price found at another spring does not transfer here. Two numbers missing, both a phone call away. The statewide figures we did check sit on the Florida trip cost page.

If money changes a June visit, it changes the drive rather than the gate. The nearest long weather record being at an airport 27 miles away is a fair marker of how rural this corner is. Fuel, ice and a bed an hour closer the night before buy you the 6:29 a.m. to 11 a.m. window, before a 90.1°F afternoon takes the day. That single line on the budget moves the trip more than anything you could buy on site.

Things to do in Madison Blue Spring in June

June is the month the contrast starts paying. Air at 90.1°F over water at 73.2°F is a 16.9°F gap. May puts the same water under an 86.4°F high, a gap of 13.2°F, pleasant without being dramatic. July widens it to 18.9°F and asks 9.0 wet days for the privilege, though June still beats July for sheer volume of rain, 7.08 inches against 5.33. The swap from hot bank to cold water is the reason to come in June rather than in April.

The site is Madison Blue Spring State Park, and the numbers we can stand behind for it are the water’s: 73.2°F (22.9°C) at the vent and 72 cubic feet per second leaving it, read at USGS station 02319302. That volume is why the water is clear, since it is replaced faster than it can cloud. Florida Statutes 373.802(5) defines Outstanding Florida Springs as every historic first-magnitude spring determined by the Florida Geological Survey, plus six named by hand in the law. We did not verify which list this spring sits on.

None of that moves with the month. The gauge read 73.2°F in September and will read near 73.2°F in June, in December and on the hottest Tuesday of the year. June changes the air standing over it, 90.1°F against May’s 86.4°F, and with the air changes how long you want to stay in and how quickly you want to get back in. The season here happens above the surface.

What a walk-in costs, we cannot tell you. The Florida DEP recreational facilities inventory for 2024 lists no designated swimming area for this park and no canoe, kayak or tube launch, so do not build the day around a marked swim zone or a boat put-in. Entrance fee, opening hour and any manatee count are all missing from our reads; the winter springs where manatees gather are covered in our manatee guide. Call the park before the drive.

Madison Blue Spring in June: a two-day itinerary

Day one runs on the light. Sunrise at 6:29 a.m. means parking by seven with the air near 68°F and the whole morning ahead of the heat. Give the first hours to the water, then take lunch and the hottest stretch, roughly noon to 4 p.m., under cover or back at the base. Come back for the long evening: the two hours before the 8:38 p.m. sunset are the best of the day, and the drive home still runs in daylight.

Day two is the one that bends. With measurable rain on about 28 percent of June days, a two-day weekend has close to even odds of catching one, and the rain here is usually an afternoon event rather than an all-day sit. Keep the morning identical, then hold the afternoon loose: a town errand, a long lunch, the road to the next stop. If the sky closes in entirely, 73.2°F water is indifferent to a gray day, and only the drying off suffers.

Madison Blue Spring in June vs May and July

Across the three months the air climbs and the water holds. Highs go 86.4°F, 90.1°F, 92.1°F, putting June 3.7°F above May and 2.0°F below July. Lows climb harder, 60.3°F to 67.9°F to 70.1°F, a 7.6°F difference between a May dawn and a June one. Rain is where June separates itself: 7.08 inches against May’s 2.84, with wet days nearly doubling from 4.6 to 8.4. July collects more wet days, 9.0, and less total rain, 5.33 inches.

Move four weeks back to May and you buy dry weather, 4.24 fewer inches and roughly half the wet days, at the price of a colder dawn and a 13.2°F air-to-water gap instead of 16.9°F. Move four weeks forward to July and you gain two degrees of contrast, lose a little rainfall and add a wet day. Families tied to the school calendar rarely get the choice. Anyone who does should look at May first: 4.6 wet days is a different weekend from 8.4.

Is June a good time to visit Madison Blue Spring?

Yes, with one condition attached. June works for anyone building the day around the water and around early hours: 73.2°F under 90.1°F is the trade people drive here for, and 14 hours 09 minutes of daylight leaves room to take it twice. It works badly for anyone planning long afternoons outdoors away from the spring, and for anyone who needs a settled sky on one fixed date booked months out.

If the answer for you is no, the month to move to is May rather than July. May keeps the same water near 73°F and cuts rain to 2.84 inches over 4.6 wet days, with afternoons at 86.4°F. You give up the warm dawn, 60.3°F against 67.9°F, and some of the contrast. July repairs nothing June does wrong: hotter at 92.1°F, and wetter by the count of days at 9.0.

What June alone offers is the year’s longest light over the first real heat: 14 hours 09 minutes on June 15, an afternoon reaching 90.1°F, and water that has not moved a degree to meet it.

The last word

Decide the hour, not the date. A visit that starts at 6:29 a.m. and ends by noon is a different trip from the same visit at two in the afternoon, and the water is identical in both. One figure not yet served: an average June records an inch of rain or more on 2.1 days, so a genuine washout is a real if minority outcome. USGS station 02319302 publishes the spring’s temperature and its 72 cubic feet per second before you leave the house. Read it, then call the park for the hours we could not.

Sources & data for this guide

• June, May and July normals, rain days and rainfall · NOAA NCEI monthly normals 1991-2020, station USW00093845, Valdosta Regional Airport, GA, about 27 miles from the spring · checked Sep 24, 2026
• Daylight, sunrise and sunset for June 15 · sunrise-sunset.org · checked Sep 24, 2026
• Water temperature 73.2°F (22.9°C) and discharge 72 cubic feet per second · U.S. Geological Survey, National Water Information System, station 02319302 · instantaneous reading, Sep 11, 2026
• No designated swimming area and no canoe, kayak or tube launch listed · Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Recreational Facilities Inventory, 2024 annual report · checked Sep 24, 2026
• Outstanding Florida Springs definition · Florida Statutes 373.802(5) · checked Sep 24, 2026
• Hurricane season dates, June 1 to November 30 · NOAA National Hurricane Center, via our Florida calendar · checked Sep 24, 2026
• Entrance fee, opening hours and manatee counts: we could not read them. floridastateparks.org returned 403 to automated reads and the FWC manatee page renders client-side on Sep 11, 2026, so we publish no price and no hours · call the park before you drive.

To plan your stay

• Madison Blue Spring: When to Go, Month by Month Highs, Rain and Daylight
• Madison Blue Spring in May: Weather, Water Temperature and How May Compares to April and June
• Madison Blue Spring in July: Water Temperature, Heat and Rain Days
• Madison Blue Spring in April: Weather, Water Temperature and How It Compares to March and May

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