A novel method for surface temperature measurement using temperature sensitive paint (TSP) is presented. Precalibration of the TSP is shown and a semi in situ calibration technique using thermocouples is provided for high accuracy measurement. The method presented is applied to a film cooling experiment with a maximum surface temperature of 430 K and compared to highly reliable infrared thermography measurements that serve as benchmark results. The in situ calibration technique shows a maximum deviation of 0.5 K from the thermocouple readings. The comparison of laterally averaged temperature distributions of TSP and infrared measurement shows excellent agreement.