Virginia Beach, VA 23466 Frost Dates
23466, near Virginia Beach, VA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/29, about 213 days from today. 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.
The actual range around Virginia Beach's last frost
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
Virginia Beach's growing season runs about 230 days, ranking 10,289 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within VA, it ranks 112 of 1,178.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 23466: local microclimates, on what one yard in Virginia Beach can differ from the 23466 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Virginia Beach's frost date answer different questions.