Mexico Beach, FL 32410 Frost Dates
32410, near Mexico Beach, FL: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/01, roughly 185 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/29, roughly 271 days after the last spring frost.
Mexico Beach sits in USDA Zone 9b (25 to 30°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
Mexico Beach's growing season runs out in roughly 13 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Mexico Beach's last frost
03/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Mexico Beach against the rest of the dataset
Mexico Beach's growing season runs about 271 days, ranking 5,458 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 1,499 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32410: the frost range, on how to read the range around Mexico Beach's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Mexico Beach can differ from the 32410 normal.