Atlantic Beach, FL 32233 Frost Dates
32233, near Atlantic Beach, FL: the frost window
Around 02/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 157 days away. 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
Atlantic Beach's growing season runs out in roughly 19 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
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 2,869 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,121 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32233: local microclimates, on what one yard in Atlantic Beach can differ from the 32233 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Atlantic Beach's frost date answer different questions.