Winter Park, FL Noise Ordinances: Quiet Hours (2026)

Sec. 62-96(a) is one sentence: no person shall make, continue or cause to be made or continued any noise disturbance. Sec. 62-92 defines a noise disturbance as any sound that endangers or injures the safety or health of humans or animals, annoys or disturbs a reasonable person of normal sensitivities, endangers or injures personal or real property, is loud or raucous, causes actual or imminent interference with peace or good order, or exceeds any dBA limit set in the division.

That test carries no clock of its own, so Sec. 62-96(b) lists nine factors to weigh, including the level of the noise, the ambient noise, the proximity of the noise to sleeping facilities or residential areas, the nature and zoning of the areas involved, the time of day or night, the duration, and whether the noise is recurrent, intermittent or constant.

Sec. 62-97(a) supplies the fixed hours. Yelling, shouting, hooting, whistling or singing on the public streets between 11:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. is a violation when it creates a noise disturbance (subsection (4)). Loud and excessive noise from loading or unloading a vehicle, including opening and destroying boxes, crates and containers, is barred in a residential area between 11:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. (subsection (7)). Noise on a street adjacent to a school, institution of learning, church or court while it is in use, or adjacent to a hospital, is barred when it interferes with the institution or unduly annoys patients (subsection (8)).

Other hours sit nearby. Sound systems are limited from 10:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m. outside a building and from 11:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m. inside one, power tools from 9:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m., and construction equipment from 8:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. on weekdays. Sec. 62-98 sets 10:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. in the downtown districts, and Sec. 62-99 bans train horns and whistles from 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. at public grade crossings.

Sec. 62-93 exempts emergency noise, railway locomotives and cars, religious chimes and bells, city refuse operations, traditional community events and routine maintenance of public service facilities. Under Sec. 62-95, an owner or lessee who is present and lets a noise disturbance exist commits the violation too.