Tallahassee, FL 32313 Frost Dates
32313, near Tallahassee, FL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/11, about 195 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/21, roughly 255 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 9a (20 to 25°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 Tallahassee, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Tallahassee's growing season runs out in roughly 12 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
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 6,876 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,560 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32313: local microclimates, on what one yard in Tallahassee can differ from the 32313 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Tallahassee's frost date answer different questions.