The effect of hysteresis in saturated pool boiling of water from stainless-steel surfaces has been investigated experimentally. Several sets of test sections of different surface conditions, geometries, orientations, diameters, lengths, and water types were tested at atmospheric pressure. The experimental results show that hysteresis effects in pool boiling heat transfer are not significant, but some appreciable trends are observed in accordance with parameters change. At higher heat flux regions, the curve for heat flux decrease is shifted to the left side of the curve for heat flux increase. To clarify hysteresis in pool boiling and to give some improvement on published correlations, four empirical correlations are obtained in terms of tube diameter, surface roughness, and tube wall superheat.