Troy Spring in November: Weather, Water Temperature and the 25-Space Lot

FLORIDA · TROY SPRING · NOVEMBER

Troy Spring has no seasons. The air above it does. On September 11, 2026 the USGS gauge sitting in the spring read 71.4°F, and it reads close to that in February, in July, and on whatever Saturday you decide to drive up. Everything that changes between one visit and the next happens above the surface.

November hands you an average high of 74.4°F, an average low of 49.2°F and 10 hours 41 minutes of daylight on the 15th. That turns a weekend here into a different trip from a summer one: the swim becomes a choice you make on purpose, and the 25-space parking lot stops being the thing that ends your day. Still picking a month for the wider state? Our Florida calendar takes the long view.

On this page

• Troy Spring weather in November74.4°F days, 2.10 inches, 3.4 wet days
• How cold the water and the nights run71.4°F water, 49.2°F nights, 2 freezes
• Parking, crowds and what we could price25 spaces, and no fee we could verify
• Things to do at the park in NovemberSwim area, 0.4-mile paddle, 0.3-mile trail
• A two-day plan around a 5:36 p.m. sunsetTrail first, water at midday, off the road by dark
• November against October and December82.2°F, 74.4°F, 68.2°F
• Is November a good month to go?Yes to paddle, maybe to swim
• Last month’s version of the same tripTroy Spring in October

Every air figure here comes from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USW00012833 at Cross City AP, about 27 miles (44 km) from the spring. That is a real thermometer on an airfield, not a modeled grid cell, and it describes the air only. The water number is separate: a USGS instrument in the spring itself.

Troy Spring weather in November: average highs, lows and rain days

NOAA’s 1991-2020 normals for Cross City AP put November at a 74.4°F average high, a 49.2°F average low and 2.10 inches of rain across the month. Cross City is a coastal-plain airfield 27 miles from the spring, so treat those figures as the regional air, accurate to within a degree or two of what the parking lot will feel like on the day you arrive.

Rain arrives on 3.4 days of an average November at 0.10 inch or more, which works out to roughly one day in nine. Only 0.4 day reaches a full inch, so a genuine soaking lands in about two Novembers out of five. Most wet days here are an hour of gray and a wet picnic table, not a canceled weekend, and the 0.3-mile trail is short enough to wait out under the car hatch.

Between the average low and the average high sits a spread of 25.2°F, and that gap is what your bag has to cover. A fleece and long pants for the 7 a.m. drive, a swimsuit and two towels for the middle of the day, and a full set of dry clothes left in the car, because changing at 5 p.m. in November is not the same exercise it is in August. Add a thermos if you plan to be in the water twice.

Daylight on November 15 runs 10 hours 41 minutes: sunrise at 6:56 a.m., sunset at 5:36 p.m. Eastern. The warm block of the day is narrow, roughly noon to 4 p.m., and after that the air drops toward those 49.2°F nights fast. Anyone planning a drive home should note that the light goes before the dinner hour, not after it.

How warm is Troy Spring in November?

Two numbers do the work. The air averages 74.4°F by day and 49.2°F at night, a 25.2°F swing. The spring held 71.4°F when the USGS gauge was read on September 11, 2026, a single instantaneous measurement rather than a monthly mean, and the gauge reads close to that all year. So the water sits 3.0°F below a typical November afternoon and more than twenty degrees above a typical November dawn.

In practice you dress for two days in one. Long sleeves at the gate, bare feet by eleven, back into the fleece by four. Nobody eases into 71.4°F water gently, whatever the month, but November changes the exit rather than the entry: you climb out into 74°F air instead of 90°F air, and the towel stops being a formality. A wind off an open lot at 3 p.m. is the part people underestimate.

Freezing nights do occur. An average November records 2.0 nights at 32°F or below at the Cross City station, which is worth knowing if you are camping elsewhere in the county or leaving a car out overnight before an early start. Two nights in thirty is not a cold month by any northern standard, and it is enough to make the 71.4°F water feel tropical at 8 a.m.

How busy is Troy Spring in November? Crowds, prices and the demand peak

Begin with what we could not find. We located no occupancy series and no month-by-month room rates for this corner of north Florida, so we crown no month cheap and no month expensive. The one capacity figure we can verify is the state’s own count in its 2024 recreational facilities inventory: 25 parking spaces at Troy Spring State Park, alongside a single designated swimming area.

That count, not an opening hour, is what governs a busy day: when the lot fills, the gate closes. On a summer Saturday it fills early. With November afternoons averaging 74.4°F rather than October’s 82.2°F, our reading is that fewer cars come purely for a swim, though a clear Saturday still bunches arrivals between eleven and three. Getting there before ten removes the question entirely, and our getting-around guide covers the driving side of a north Florida weekend.

We could not verify a lodging-tax rate for the county, so we give no percentage. We could not verify an entrance fee or an opening hour either: the state park website answers automated reads with a 403. Ask whatever property you book for the all-in nightly total, and call the park before you set the alarm.

There is one purchase that genuinely changes this month, and it is neoprene. A shorty or a hooded vest turns 71.4°F water from a five-minute dare into half an hour of floating, in a month when the air offers only 74.4°F to rewarm in. Everything else on a Troy Spring day costs what it costs in any month: the gas, the sandwiches, the bed you sleep in afterward.

Things to do in Troy Spring in November

November is the crossover. In October the average high of 82.2°F sits 10.8°F above the water, so the spring reads as relief. By December the average high of 68.2°F falls 3.2°F below it, and the water becomes the warm part of the day. November splits the difference at 3.0°F, the one month when land and water feel like the same temperature, and the only month when you can hike, paddle and swim without any of the three punishing you for the other two.

What the park actually holds was counted by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection in 2024: 1 designated swimming area, 1 canoe, kayak and tube launch, 0.4 miles of paddling trail, 0.3 miles of hiking trail, 50 feet of boardwalk and those 25 spaces. It is a small park with one very large feature, and half a day covers the ground twice.

The month changes the frame, never the spring. Those 0.3 miles of trail that bake in an 82°F October are simply a walk at 74.4°F, and the 50 feet of boardwalk works as a warming spot at midday rather than shade to hurry through. The 0.4-mile paddle is the pick of the three in November: you stay dry, you stay moving, and you are back at the launch before the 5:36 p.m. sunset.

We cannot tell you what is free. No entrance fee, no opening hour and no free-entry day could be verified, and we are not going to transplant a price from another park, since Florida fees vary by unit and by season. We also found no manatee count for this spring: the state wildlife page renders client-side and would not give up a number, so read our manatee guide for where winter sightings are actually documented.

Troy Spring in November: a two-day itinerary

Day one runs on the light. Sunrise is 6:56 a.m., so leave with it and you are at the gate around nine with the 25-space lot still open. Walk the 0.3-mile trail first, while the air is climbing out of the 49.2°F overnight low. Swim between noon and three, when the 74.4°F average high lands. Paddle the 0.4-mile trail afterward to get your body temperature back, and be changed and dry by 4:30, with an hour of light to spare.

Day two is the flexible one. If the sky is clear, reverse the order: paddle at ten, swim at two, and leave the trail for the last half hour of warmth. If you draw one of the month’s 3.4 wet days, the paddle still works under gray and the swim barely notices rain at all, since you are already 71.4°F wet. Only the 0.4-day, inch-or-more Novembers are worth rescheduling for, and that is a call you make the night before.

Troy Spring in November vs October and December

Across the three months the water never moves and the air falls 14.0°F, from October’s 82.2°F to December’s 68.2°F. Rain is the quiet variable: November is the driest of the three at 2.10 inches over 3.4 wet days, while December brings 2.95 inches over 4.6. Nights fall faster than days, from 59.9°F to 44.4°F, which is why an October dawn needs a sweatshirt and a December dawn needs a coat.

Shift four weeks back and you buy eight degrees of afternoon air, the kind that makes a long swim feel like a reward rather than a test, at the cost of a fuller lot and 0.3 more wet days: the October page makes that case in full. Shift four weeks forward and the spring becomes the warmest thing in the park, with 1.2 more wet days and the shortest daylight of the year closing in around you.

Is November a good time to visit Troy Spring?

For a paddler, a walker or anyone who wants to park without strategy, November is the strongest month of the three. For a family planning four hours in the water in swimsuits, it is not. The 25.2°F spread between day and night is real, the 71.4°F water does not soften, and children last a lot less time in it than the adults who promised them a spring day.

If swimming is the whole reason for the trip, book October instead. An 82.2°F average high gives you a genuinely hot deck to warm up on, the rain difference is a third of a day, and the tradeoff is competition for 25 spaces on any clear weekend. Arriving at opening solves most of that.

No other month puts land and water within 3.0°F of each other, and November is the last one before the spring starts outdoing the air entirely.

The last word

Decide by the water, not the forecast. The air will do roughly what NOAA says, 74.4°F and a one-in-nine chance of rain, and the spring will be 71.4°F whatever happens. So pack the neoprene, take the early exit off the highway, and give the 0.4-mile paddle the middle of the day rather than the end of it. One thing worth carrying home: Florida writes this place into law. Statute 373.802(5) protects the Outstanding Florida Springs, every historic first-magnitude spring plus six more named by hand.

Sources & data for this guide

• November, October and December air normals (74.4/49.2°F, 82.2/59.9°F, 68.2/44.4°F), precipitation and wet-day counts · NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USW00012833, Cross City AP, FL US, about 27 miles (44 km) from the spring · checked Sep 24, 2026
• Freezing nights (2.0 at 32°F or below) · same NOAA NCEI normals · checked Sep 24, 2026
• Daylight of 10 h 41 min, sunrise 6:56 a.m. and sunset 5:36 p.m. Eastern on Nov 15 · sunrise-sunset.org, converted from 11:56 and 22:36 UTC · checked Sep 24, 2026
• Water at 71.4°F (21.9°C) · U.S. Geological Survey, National Water Information System, station 02320250 Troy Spring, instantaneous reading · checked Sep 24, 2026
• 25 parking spaces, 1 swimming area, 1 launch, 0.4 mi paddling trail, 0.3 mi hiking trail, 50 ft boardwalk · Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Recreational Facilities Inventory, 2024 annual report · checked Sep 24, 2026
• Outstanding Florida Springs definition · Florida Statutes 373.802(5), leg.state.fl.us · checked Sep 24, 2026
• What we could not verify: floridastateparks.org returned 403 to our reads, so no entrance fee and no opening hour appear above; the state wildlife manatee page renders client-side, so no manatee count appears either; we found no occupancy or room-rate series for the area, so we rank no month by price · checked Sep 24, 2026
• Clothing and timing advice is editorial; park hours and fees change · call the park before you drive.

To plan your stay

• Best Time to Visit Troy Spring: Month-by-Month Highs, Rain Days and Freeze Nights
• Troy Spring in October: Weather, Water Temperature and Parking
• Troy Spring in December: Water Temperature, Freeze Nights and Rain Days
• Troy Spring in January: Weather, Water Temperature, Crowds and Parking

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