Panama City Beach, FL 32408 Frost Dates
Panama City Beach, FL: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 02/07, roughly 163 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/24, roughly 318 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Panama City Beach in Zone 9b (25 to 30°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 17 weeks until Panama City Beach's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Panama City Beach's last frost
02/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Panama City Beach against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 318 frost-free days, Panama City Beach places 3,340 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,239 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 32408's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Panama City Beach can differ from the 32408 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Panama City Beach's frost date answer different questions.