Virginia Beach, VA 23456 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Virginia Beach, VA, ZIP 23456
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/29, about 213 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/12, about 230 frost-free days later.
Virginia Beach sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8b around Virginia Beach has about 11 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/13 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/11 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Virginia Beach compares
At roughly 230 frost-free days, Virginia Beach places 10,285 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VA, it ranks 108 of 1,178.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Virginia Beach can differ from the 23456 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Virginia Beach's frost date answer different questions.