Short-term rental rules in Florida

City

No zoning restriction, no minimum stay, no certificate cap — annual fire inspection sets your legal occupancy.

Primary residence: allowed · Reviewed 2026-07-24

City

Whole-home vacation rentals are legal citywide for single-family through four-family homes and condos once the property is registered with the City, passes a life-safety inspection, and holds a Certificate of Compliance.

Primary residence: allowed · Reviewed 2026-09-05

City

Whole-home vacation rentals are legal citywide once the property holds a City of Hollywood Vacation Rental License, passes the life-safety inspection, and installs a noise-monitoring device.

Primary residence: allowed · Reviewed 2026-09-05

City

In the City of Naples a home may be rented for less than 30 days only three times per calendar year; after that every rental must be 30 days or longer, and advertising sub-30-day stays is prohibited.

Primary residence: restricted · Reviewed 2026-09-05

Consolidated

Jacksonville has no short-term rental ordinance and no city registration program; you need the state DBPR license, a Duval County tourist tax account, and a business tax receipt, but the zoning code never expressly authorizes nightly rentals of a house, so confirm zoning with the Planning and Development Department before you buy.

Primary residence: conditional · Reviewed 2026-09-05

City

Tampa has no short-term rental ordinance of its own; its zoning code defines a dwelling unit as occupancy on a weekly or longer basis and treats day-rate rentals as transient lodging (hotel/motel or bed and breakfast), which is prohibited in the RS single-family districts.

Primary residence: conditional · Reviewed 2026-09-05

City

Whole-home vacation rentals are legal in Anna Maria's residential districts with an annual city registration and inspection, no minimum stay, and a hard cap of eight overnight occupants per house.

Primary residence: allowed · Reviewed 2026-09-05

City

Short-term rentals are prohibited in single-family homes and duplexes in the T3 and T4-R transect zones that cover most of Miami's residential neighborhoods; they are allowed only as lodging use in higher-intensity zones after a building conversion and a Certificate of Use.

Primary residence: restricted · Reviewed 2026-09-05

City

Banned in single-family and many multifamily districts (6-month minimum stay); legal only in certain commercial districts and three historic overlays.

Primary residence: restricted · Reviewed 2026-07-22

City

In Key West a home can be rented for less than 30 days only if it holds a city transient rental license, and the city does not issue new ones — a buyer must acquire a property that already carries one.

Primary residence: restricted · Reviewed 2026-09-05

City

Whole-home short-term rentals are legal in Destin only in the zoning districts the city lists as STR-eligible, and every rental under 180 days must hold an annual city registration.

Primary residence: conditional · Reviewed 2026-09-05

Unincorporated

Whole-home nightly and weekly rentals are prohibited in most residential zones under Chapter 38; the residential path is an owner-occupied bed-and-breakfast homestay.

Primary residence: conditional · Reviewed 2026-07-23

City

Whole-home rentals under 30 days are “Not Permitted” in residential zones. Only owner-occupied home sharing (up to half the bedrooms) is allowed in neighborhoods.

Primary residence: conditional · Reviewed 2026-07-23

Unincorporated

Whole-home vacation rentals are legal only inside Short-Term Rental Overlay districts, STR planned developments, and qualifying tourist zones; ordinary R-1/R-2 subdivisions prohibit them.

Primary residence: conditional · Reviewed 2026-07-23

City

Renting a dwelling for less than 30 days is prohibited in Kissimmee residential districts unless the parcel sits in the Short-Term Rental Overlay (STRO) district and has conditional-use or short-term-rental PUD approval.

Primary residence: conditional · Reviewed 2026-09-05

City

St. Cloud lists short-term rental only as a conditional use in its two Central Business District zones; no residential zoning district lists it, and unlisted uses are prohibited.

Primary residence: restricted · Reviewed 2026-09-05

City

Clearwater bans rentals shorter than 31 days or one calendar month on every residentially zoned parcel, including Clearwater Beach houses; nightly and weekly rentals are legal only where 'overnight accommodations' is a permitted use, chiefly the Tourist, Commercial and Downtown districts.

Primary residence: restricted · Reviewed 2026-09-05

City

In St. Petersburg's residential districts a home may be rented for less than a month no more than three times in any 365-day period; a fourth short stay makes it a transient accommodation use, which is prohibited outside the districts that allow hotels.

Primary residence: restricted · Reviewed 2026-09-05

Unincorporated

Whole-home short-term rentals are legal in unincorporated Polk County only inside subdivisions, planned-development phases or individual parcels that hold Level 3 short-term rental approval; the use is conditional in the RL-1 through RH residential districts and permitted by right only in the TCC and L/R districts.

Primary residence: conditional · Reviewed 2026-09-05

City

Whole-home vacation rentals are legal citywide in residential zones, but every stay must be at least seven full days and seven nights, non-owner-occupied houses must hold a city Certificate of Registration with an annual inspection, and occupancy is capped at ten people in single-family zones.

Primary residence: conditional · Reviewed 2026-09-05