Virginia Beach, VA 23453 Frost Dates
23453, near Virginia Beach, VA: the frost window
Around 03/29 is the usual last spring frost, about 213 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 230 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Virginia Beach, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Virginia Beach's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Virginia Beach against the rest of the dataset
About 230 days separate Virginia Beach's last and first frost, putting it 10,283 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VA, it ranks 106 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 23453: the frost range, on how to read the range around Virginia Beach's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Virginia Beach can differ from the 23453 normal.