Tallahassee, FL 32311 Frost Dates
Tallahassee, FL: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/11, roughly 195 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/21, roughly 255 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
With roughly 12 weeks until Tallahassee's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 03/11 isn't a guarantee
03/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Tallahassee against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 255 frost-free days, Tallahassee places 6,874 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,558 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 32311's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Tallahassee's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Tallahassee can differ from the 32311 normal.