Outdoor Lighting in Florida (2026)

On Pensacola Beach, any light directly or indirectly visible from the marine beach must use wildlife-friendly lighting…

Franklin County bans exterior lighting visible from the beach on all new coastal construction seaward of the coastal…

Indian River County's Atlantic coast requires sea-turtle-friendly lighting. Under Fla. Stat. 161.163 the state sets…

St. Lucie County's Treasure Coast beaches are protected by a sea-turtle lighting ordinance (LDC 6.04.02). Between the…

Boca Raton bans nearly all artificial light visible from its beaches under Code Sec. 23-242. Floodlights and decorative…

Deerfield Beach bans floodlights and requires full cut-off, fully shielded, long-wavelength fixtures on any new…

Fort Lauderdale requires new construction visible from the beach to shield or eliminate light that could disorient…

Hollywood's Chapter 108 bars artificial light from reaching the Beach during Marine Turtle Nesting Season, March 1…

During sea turtle nesting season, April 1 through October 31, Miami Beach's Turtle Nesting Protection Ordinance bars…

Sarasota County's Marine Turtle Protection Code bans any light fixture visible from the Beach on Casey Key, Lido Key…

New construction visible from the beach in the City of Satellite Beach's sea turtle lighting district must use…

Alachua County caps how far outdoor light fixtures can aim upward or outward: § 407.146(d) bans any fixture oriented so…

Bay County's Gulf beaches are sea-turtle nesting habitat, so beachfront lighting is regulated to protect hatchlings…

Unincorporated Brevard requires cut-off, shielded fixtures on any site plan and caps light spilling onto neighboring…

Unincorporated Broward requires full cutoff outdoor fixtures, caps color temperature at 3000K, and sets footcandle…

Every permanent outdoor light fixture on nonresidential property in Cape Coral must be shielded so the bulb itself…

Charlotte County has no general inland dark-sky ordinance, but its Gulf beaches carry a real sea-turtle lighting rule…

Citrus County's Cardinal Mixed Use (CMU) District, covering non-residential and mixed-use development along the…

Collier County's coastal lighting rules protect nesting sea turtles. Within 300 feet of the Gulf's mean high water…

Coral Gables caps residential outdoor light color temperature at 3000 Kelvin and limits shielded fixtures to 2,000…

Davie's night sky regulations require most new and modified outdoor lighting to use full cutoff, fully shielded…

Daytona Beach requires full cut-off, downward-directed fixtures for almost all exterior lighting under Land Development…

Unincorporated Flagler County requires new beachside development to shield, position or turn off exterior lighting so…

Fort Myers requires fully shielded, full cutoff outdoor light fixtures on non-residential and multifamily parking lots…

Gainesville's Land Development Code requires outdoor lighting on horizontal surfaces to use fully shielded, full-cutoff…

Within the 49th Street Redevelopment Master Overlay District, City Code § 22-5.16(j) requires every light fixture to be…

Hillsborough County requires all outdoor light fixtures on non-residential and multi-family projects to be full cutoff…

Jacksonville shields outdoor lighting use by use rather than through a single citywide dark-sky code: filling stations…

Every exterior fixture in Jupiter, from roof and facade lighting to any fixture forming a linear pattern, must be…

Kissimmee caps site lighting at 0.5 footcandles at a residential property line and 1.0 footcandle elsewhere, and…

Lake County is not a certified dark-sky community and has no residential dark-sky mandate. Its LDR instead controls…

On unincorporated Gulf of Mexico beaches, Lee County's sea turtle division bars artificial light from directly or…

Rural commercial and restricted uses in Leon County's Rural Zoning District must wall-mount outdoor lighting, follow…

On Manatee County's Gulf beaches, including Anna Maria Island, lighting that shines onto the beach must be shielded or…

Every outdoor lighting fixture Martin County installs on private or public property, from parking-lot lights to…

In unincorporated Miami-Dade County, area lighting for parking lots, sports fields and security must be shielded…

Miramar's Land Development Code caps every private outdoor fixture at 12 feet for non-cut-off luminaires and 30 feet…

Inside the Timber to Tides Design Overlay along SR 200/A1A, every thoroughfare, building-facade and parking-lot light…

New Port Richey requires multi-family developments of 10+ units to use full cut-off light fixtures that prevent glare…

North Port requires outdoor fixtures on commercial, multifamily, and other non-exempt development to be shielded cutoff…

Okaloosa County's beachfront lighting rules exist mainly to protect sea turtles. Gulf-front and Okaloosa Island…

In unincorporated Orange County, commercial and office lighting must be full cutoff, with no floodlights and no more…

Orlando requires every outdoor fixture covered by its lighting code, including security lights, to be a "cutoff…

Despite sitting beside Walt Disney World and the dark Kissimmee chain-of-lakes, Osceola County's Land Development Code…

Palm Bay bans low-pressure sodium fixtures citywide, caps outdoor lighting at 1,000 lumens per fixture, and limits…

Unincorporated Palm Beach County requires full-cutoff outdoor luminaires that direct zero lumens above 90 degrees from…

Pembroke Pines requires full cutoff, directionally shielded fixtures on nonresidential pole lighting and directs…

Unincorporated Pinellas County requires full cut-off outdoor light fixtures, ones with no direct uplight, on walkways…

Sec. 27-293 requires an engineer-prepared photometric plan, caps light spillover at 0.5 footcandles at the property…

Polk County has no county-wide dark-sky ordinance for homes. The LDC requires that lighting for parking and loading…

Pompano Beach caps upward glare at the fixture, not just the property line. Any exterior light source over 900 lumens…

On Navarre Beach the county's Marine Turtle Protection Lighting Ordinance (LDC 3.05.07) requires all beach-visible…

City of Sarasota requires full cut-off, fully shielded fixtures on new nonresidential and multifamily site lighting…

Seminole County's Land Development Code Part 15 requires outdoor lighting to be shielded so no light is emitted above…

St. Johns County's Land Development Code requires full cutoff light fixtures on any non-residential, multi-family, or…

St. Petersburg requires new outdoor light fixtures to be full cut-off and shielded so they don't spill glare onto…

Sumter County caps light poles at 16 feet in pedestrian areas and 35 feet elsewhere, and requires every exterior…

Sunrise has no dark-sky or full-cutoff ordinance and, as an inland city, no sea-turtle lighting rules. Outdoor lighting…

Tallahassee applies dark-sky lighting standards to the Multi-Modal Transportation District's Transects T3, T4 and T5…

Titusville's Land Development Regulations require all freestanding and building-mounted light fixtures to be down-lit…

Citywide, West Palm Beach requires all outdoor lighting to be shielded to reduce glare and aimed away from adjacent…

Hernando County has no county-wide dark-sky ordinance, and Florida has no statewide dark-sky law. New commercial…

On Perdido Key south of Semmes Road, all exterior lighting must be wildlife-friendly and no light may be visible…

Okaloosa County bans any measurable light overspill onto a neighbor's property. Section 6.11.04 caps overspill from new…

Along St. Lucie County's coast, the sea-turtle ordinance (LDC 6.04.02) is the strongest light-trespass rule: exterior…

No artificial light source in Deerfield Beach, new or existing, may illuminate the beach or be directly, indirectly, or…

Volusia County bars any residential outdoor light fixture from directly illuminating beyond the property line between…

Alachua County's outdoor lighting article bans any lamp or bulb visible beyond the property line it sits on, and caps…

Boca Raton caps light spilling onto neighboring homes at 1 footcandle measured at the residential property line under…

Unincorporated Brevard requires site-planned properties to shield outdoor lighting: cut-off fixtures with house-side…

Unincorporated Broward requires full cutoff fixtures and strict glare/light-trespass limits on all outdoor lighting…

Cape Coral caps light spilling onto residential property at 0.1 foot-candle, measured right at the residential property…

Charlotte County requires commercial exterior lighting to be shielded and directional so it never spills onto…

Inside Citrus County's Cardinal Mixed Use (CMU) District along the Cardinal Street corridor, the Land Development Code…

Collier County sets no general numeric limit on light spilling onto a neighbor's inland property; that is handled as a…

Coral Gables caps shielded outdoor security lighting at 2,000 lumens in residential zones, requires glare stay off…

Dade City's Exterior Lighting Standards bar light sources from being directed outward toward property lines or…

Davie requires commercial and industrial lighting to shut off at 11 p.m. or closing, but allows motion-activated…

Daytona Beach caps how much light a property can throw onto its neighbors. Outdoor lighting is measured in foot-candles…

Deltona limits parking-lot lighting so illumination at the property line or edge of adjacent pavement cannot rise more…

Doral's land development code bars glare onto abutting residential property from any street, parking, or walkway…

In unincorporated Flagler County, Florida, the Land Development Code's industrial performance standards require outdoor…

Fort Lauderdale's minimum housing code requires every private parking lot open to the public to be lit so that no glare…

Fort Myers caps outdoor lighting at 0.5 foot-candle at the property line and 0.2 foot-candle onto adjacent residential…

Gainesville caps light trespass by the receiving property's use: 0.5 footcandles for residential sites, 1.0 footcandle…

Within the 49th Street Redevelopment Master Overlay District, City Code § 22-5.16(j)(5) requires outdoor fixtures to be…

Hialeah caps how bright a building can shine toward residential neighbors: Sec. 74-178 limits illumination on buildings…

Hillsborough County limits outdoor lighting on non-residential, multi-family, and shared single-family development…

Hollywood's zoning code requires that lighting for any required off-street parking facility be arranged and designed to…

Homestead requires every mixed-use and non-residential development to design its site lighting to prevent direct glare…

Jacksonville's zoning code bars glare and excessive light from spilling onto neighboring property, requiring parking…

Jupiter caps how much light a development can spill onto a neighboring lot at 0.3 footcandle under section 27-2592(g)…

Kissimmee requires outdoor fixtures to carry directional shields, reflectors, or lenses that aim and limit the light…

Lake County's LDR requires lighting to be directed away from neighboring properties and rights-of-way. Parking-area…

Lee County does regulate light spilling off your lot. Outdoor lighting may not exceed 0.5 footcandle at the property…

When a new residential development needs Type A, B, C, or D site plan review and Leon County Schools anticipates a bus…

In unincorporated Manatee County, outdoor lighting fixtures must have full oblique shielding so a property's lights do…

Martin County's Land Development Regulations require industrial operations that create glare to shield it completely…

Melbourne caps light spilling from any property onto a neighboring residential lot at one footcandle. Parks lighting…

Miami 21 caps average lighting measured at the building frontage on a sliding scale by Transect Zone, from 1.0…

Miami Beach prohibits flashing, strobing or multidirectional moving lights on residential property that unreasonably…

Unincorporated Miami-Dade requires a permit and detailed plans for outdoor area lighting, capping spillover onto…

Miramar's Land Development Code sets a hard ceiling on light crossing a property line: fixtures for parking areas…

Any agritourism operation on land classified agricultural by the Nassau County property appraiser has to design its…

New Port Richey, Florida (Pasco County) requires multi-family projects of ten or more units, or on a full acre or more…

North Port caps outdoor lighting at 0.5 footcandles at property lines next to residential zones and 1.0 footcandle…

Commercial and nonresidential development in unincorporated Orange County can't spill light onto neighboring…

Orlando requires every outdoor light fixture, including security lighting, to be a cutoff fixture under City Code §…

Osceola County's Land Development Code requires exterior site lighting to be designed so it does not bleed onto…

Palm Bay requires every nonexempt outdoor light fixture to be shielded so its output drops to zero at the property…

Unincorporated Palm Beach County caps light spilling onto neighboring land at 0.33 foot-candles at residential property…

Pembroke Pines caps outdoor lighting at 0.5 footcandles measured at the property line of any project under Code of…

Unincorporated Pinellas County bans outdoor lighting that lets glare or light trespass, unwanted light crossing a…

Section 27-293(d) requires lighting for parking areas, buildings and signs to be located, screened or shielded so…

Polk County has no residential light-trespass ordinance. The LDC bars signs bright enough to glare onto adjoining…

Pompano Beach sets hard foot-candle ceilings for how much light can cross onto a neighbor's land: 1.0 foot-candle next…

Port Orange caps glare and site lighting from industrial and commercial operations at 0.5 footcandle measured at the…

Port St. Lucie caps outdoor lighting fixtures at 25 feet and requires every fixture to be shielded so it does not…

The county's strongest light-trespass rule is on Navarre Beach: existing beach-visible outdoor lights must be turned…

Sarasota's zoning code requires security and site-lighting fixtures to be full cut-off and aimed downward so light…

Sarasota County's outdoor-lighting standards cap light spilling onto neighbors: illumination at the property line may…

City Code Section 30-557 in the City of Satellite Beach requires all exterior lighting to be positioned so it does not…

Seminole County's outdoor lighting code caps light spilling onto neighboring property at one-half (0.5) foot-candle…

St. Johns County's Land Development Code bars any bright light from a covered project that spills onto adjacent…

Where a multi-family or nonresidential property abuts a home or residential zone, City Code § 16.40.070.4.A.2 requires…

Sumter County bans lighting arranged or operated so it glares onto adjoining streets or residential property, or…

Sunrise caps light spillover onto adjacent property at 0.5 footcandles, measured on a vertical plane 3 feet above grade…

When a non-residential or dense-residential project in Tallahassee sits next to or across the street from a protected…

Every illuminated sign in Tampa, from a lit storefront to a strip-mall marquee, is capped at one foot-candle of…

Titusville's Land Development Regulations bar site lighting from being directed onto a neighboring lot or from…

West Palm Beach requires all outdoor lighting to be shielded and aimed away from neighboring residential property. City…

Winter Haven bars any use, commercial or industrial, from throwing glare that is 'readily perceptible' at the…

Jupiter defines a billboard as any off-premises advertising sign and bans billboard signs outright in every zoning…

Okaloosa County bans up-lighting any billboard or other advertising media outright under LDC § 6.11.04, no matter…

Miami caps outdoor advertising sign brightness at 500 nits after sunset, limits operating hours to 6 a.m.-11 p.m., and…

West Palm Beach bans new billboards citywide except a narrow relocation program along Interstate 95, and any relocated…

Brevard County caps digital billboard brightness at 0.3 foot-candles above ambient light and requires an automatic…

Broward County's zoning code caps sign lighting to internal, back-lit, or fully shielded spotlight methods, requires…

An electronic or digital billboard face in unincorporated Citrus County cannot exceed 5,000 nits during daylight hours…

Digital billboards along Interstate 95 in Daytona Beach cannot shine brighter than 5,000 nits during the day or 500…

Doral limits illuminated off-premises billboards to no more than one foot-candle of light measured four feet from the…

Escambia County caps how bright any illuminated sign, billboards included, can be after dark: no sign may exceed 500…

Billboards in Fort Myers may be digital and internally lit or externally lit with floodlights, but external fixtures…

Gulfport's sign lighting rules bar floodlights or spotlights from shining directly onto neighboring property or into…

Hialeah measures digital billboard brightness against ambient light rather than a fixed number. Sec. 74-150(i)(4)…

Hollywood limits how any sign, including a billboard, may be lit: only four illumination methods are allowed and none…

An offsite sign within 200 feet of a residentially zoned district in Jacksonville must be nonilluminated and can't…

Unincorporated Lee County lets billboards along I-75, Alico Road and Metro Parkway carry external floodlights or…

Martin County's sign ordinance regulates how billboards and other permitted signs may be lit rather than banning…

Miami-Dade County caps digital billboard brightness at 500 nits from sunset to sunrise (5,000 nits by day), bans…

Miramar caps how bright a digital billboard can glow. LDC § 1014.3 limits messages to no more than 0.3 foot candles…

Orlando's digital billboard rule bans flashing, rotating or intensity-varying illumination and caps brightness at 0.3…

Digital billboards in Palm Bay cannot exceed 0.3 foot-candles above ambient light and must include light-sensing…

In unincorporated Palm Beach County, billboard illumination must be aimed only at the billboard face, no outward…

Port St. Lucie requires every billboard's lighting to be shielded so it cannot beam toward residential, institutional…

St. Johns County bars flashing, scintillating, beacon or running lights and animated copy on any billboard under LDC §…

St. Petersburg forces every digital billboard to run a light-sensing dimmer that caps brightness against ambient light…

Digital billboards in Tallahassee can't glow as bright as their operator likes. Land Development Code § 7-64(f)(6)(g)…

Every electronic billboard sign in Tampa must dim or shield its lighting so nearby homes never see more than…

Titusville requires every billboard's lighting to be uplit from fixtures mounted to the structure, never flashing or…

Any illuminated sign in unincorporated Volusia County, including the off-premises billboards permitted under Sec…

Unincorporated Highlands County allows illumination on any permitted sign, including the off-site signs and billboards…

Unincorporated Pinellas County requires any electronic billboard operator to agree in writing to follow whatever…