Too COLD to swim in January??

[DandSx2]

Okay, so this may be a stupid question, but I gotta ask anyway. My kids are wondering what temp is too cold to swim at Disney World? We are staying at ASMu this time. We have always gone in September so they have been spoiled and this time we are going in January. Accuweather is predicting highs of 65 while we are there so I am thinking swimming will probably be out of the question? What do you think or know form previous experience?
Thanks in advance....

 

[kmb584]

Okay, so this may be a stupid question, but I gotta ask anyway. My kids are wondering what temp is too cold to swim at Disney World? We are staying at ASMu this time. We have always gone in September so they have been spoiled and this time we are going in January. Accuweather is predicting highs of 65 while we are there so I am thinking swimming will probably be out of the question? What do you think or know form previous experience?
Thanks in advance....

All Disney resort pools are heated to 82 degrees so while the outside temperature may be hovering in the mid-60's the water will be warm enough to swim in. It's rare that you'll see pool closures due to the temperature (I believe it needs to dip into the 40's for that to happen).

 

[KaLyn]

Okay, so this may be a stupid question, but I gotta ask anyway. My kids are wondering what temp is too cold to swim at Disney World? We are staying at ASMu this time. We have always gone in September so they have been spoiled and this time we are going in January. Accuweather is predicting highs of 65 while we are there so I am thinking swimming will probably be out of the question? What do you think or know form previous experience? Thanks in advance....

65 for me is definitely too cold to swim. But others on here will tell you differently. I like it to be at least 80!

 

[Idreamofmickey]

Pools are heated to 82. My kids swam one evening and it was 60, they were only cold when they got out. I brought large beach towel from home and they got wrapped and ran!!!!

 

[magicaldisney]

We swam in January. It was cold getting out but just wrap up. At the time we were living in Minnesota and the family members we went with were from Wisconsin. Swimming in January was a must for us!

 

[monorailsilver]

Brrrr....I got sick one February post splash mountain soaking!

So for me it is too cold to swim in central FL.

 

[DandSx2]

Thanks for the responses. We might consider it. I don't think it is expected to be too warm while we are there, but I do not want to dissapoint my kids. Maybe we can pick the warmest day and head back around 3pm for a swim

 

[wiigirl]

Pools are heated to 82. My kids swam one evening and it was 60, they were only cold when they got out. I brought large beach towel from home and they got wrapped and ran!!!!

Thats what we usually do.

 

[jandkmom]

Depends on where you're from We swim every year in Jan at the Poly because the water feels great to us. Last year my DH and DS were having a blast in the quiet pool and a family from the South walked by them, giving them these crazy looks. The dad said, "are you nuts? It's freezing!" It was in the mid-60s, which is balmy to us in the winter.

 

[Brittmarie04]

We leave to head down on Saturday. Weather looks like it will be mid-high 60s everyday with maybe one day barely topping 71. My daughter is insisting on swimming since pools are heated. I'm sure will will take a mid afternoon break on the warmest day to swim.

 

[tlseege]

We take our midday break to come and swim. So we swim when the parks are the most crowded and the temps are the warmest And we're from WI and my kid could care less how cold it is outside, she's swimming!

 

[DandSx2]

We just got here yesterday and our pool was closed early last night. It's going to be another cold day. Maybe we will swim tomorrow

 

[DandSx2]

We swam 3 times while at Disney this trip of 8 nights. The pool closed early some nights because it was really cold some days, like a high of 54 cold.... But we were still able to swim in January! I recommend a mid day break at the warmest part of the day for swimming.

 

[bumbershoot]

Thanks for the responses. We might consider it. I don't think it is expected to be too warm while we are there, but I do not want to dissapoint my kids. Maybe we can pick the warmest day and head back around 3pm for a swim

I would hit the pools starting at noon or 1, personally.


60s are fine for swimming as long as everyone is healthy. It's colder for those not swimming and just sitting in a lounge chair, IMO.

But if it gets lower then it gets bad, also IMO. We were at WDW between Jan 4 and 13th, and then in Daytona until the 18th, and it was truly truly cold. Not zero or negative like it was elsewhere, but for instance the day we hit Epcot (before we caught the plague that everyone seems to have had through January) the weather app said it was 36. I found out later that wind chill brought it to 21. Which makes sense for how we felt. I wish I'd checked the weather further than I did, because I would never have gone to Epcot at that perceived temperature. All that water surrounding Epcot and right in the middle of it plus wind plus cold = BONE-aching cold all day long.

The pools were absolutely CLOSED that day.

 

[Ofinn]

We just returned from Universal and swam everyday. Temps ranged from 50-70. The pools felt like a bathtub. It was cold when you got out, but I just jumped in the hot tub for 30 minutes to warm up. You won't be cold you when you get out of the hot tub. I don't think it matters where your from. The water is warm. I would rather get in a 85 degree pool when it's 60 outside than a 75 degree pool when it's 95 outside. brrrrr