Wellington, FL Short-Term Rentals: Occupancy Limits (2026)
Key Facts
- Overnight cap
- Two persons per bedroom, excluding children under 3
- Daytime cap
- Overnight occupancy plus four additional guests
- Overnight hours
- 11:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m.
- Parking tie-in
- One vehicle per occupant overnight, garage spaces excluded
- Basis for count
- Set by the rental's permitted number of bedrooms
Summary
Wellington caps how many people can stay overnight in a vacation rental: the Land Development Regulations limit overnight occupancy to two persons per bedroom, not counting children under three, and allow up to four additional daytime guests beyond that overnight count between 6:00 a.m. and 11:00 p.m.
ii.Maximum overnight occupancy. Maximum overnight occupancy for vacation rentals shall be limited to two persons per bedroom, excluding children under the age of three, for overnight use. At all other times, the maximum occupancy for vacation rentals shall not exceed the maximum overnight occupancy of the rental, plus four, excluding children under the age of three.
Full Breakdown
Wellington's vacation rental supplemental standards, LDR Section 6.2.2.A.5(b), set a firm numeric occupancy formula rather than leaving it to a lease or platform listing. Subsection (b)(ii), "Maximum overnight occupancy," limits overnight stays to two persons per bedroom, excluding children under the age of three, and defines "overnight" as running from 11:00 p.m. until 6:00 a.m. the following day. During the rest of the day, from 6:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m., the rental can host more people than the overnight count, but total occupancy still cannot exceed the maximum overnight occupancy of that specific rental plus four additional people, again excluding children under three.
The same subsection (b)(iii) also regulates parking tied to occupancy: overnight parking is limited to one vehicle for each authorized occupant not counting vehicles fully parked inside a garage, which ties the number of cars a rental can host overnight to the bedroom-based occupancy count. Because the standard is expressed per bedroom rather than as a single Village-wide number, the occupancy ceiling for any given Wellington vacation rental depends on how many bedrooms the special use permit application and site plan for that property document, making the bedroom count on file with the Village the controlling figure for enforcement.
Violations & Fines
Hosting more overnight guests than two per bedroom, or exceeding the daytime cap of the overnight occupancy plus four, violates the vacation rental standards; Wellington's regulations separately state that no parties or events exceeding the maximum permitted occupancy are allowed at a vacation rental, and a special use permit found in repeated violation can be suspended or revoked by the special magistrate.
Frequently Asked Questions
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