Tallahassee, FL 32308 Frost Dates
32308, near Tallahassee, FL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/25, about 181 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/03, roughly 286 days after the last spring frost.
Tallahassee sits in USDA Zone 9a (20 to 25°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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Tallahassee's growing season runs out in roughly 14 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 02/25 isn't a guarantee
02/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Tallahassee against the rest of the dataset
Tallahassee's growing season runs about 286 days, ranking 4,609 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 1,351 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32308: local microclimates, on what one yard in Tallahassee can differ from the 32308 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Tallahassee's frost date answer different questions.