Atlantic Beach, FL 32226 Frost Dates
Atlantic Beach, FL: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 02/01, roughly 157 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/05, roughly 332 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 9b (25 to 30°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 Atlantic Beach, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 19 weeks until Atlantic Beach's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
02/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Atlantic Beach against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 332 frost-free days, Atlantic Beach places 2,866 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,118 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 32226's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Atlantic Beach's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Atlantic Beach's dates instead of trusting one.