Pensacola, FL 32503 Frost Dates
32503, near Pensacola, FL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/14, about 170 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/09, roughly 301 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 Pensacola, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Pensacola's growing season runs out in roughly 15 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 Pensacola's last frost
02/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pensacola against the rest of the dataset
Pensacola's growing season runs about 301 days, ranking 3,916 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 1,291 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32503: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Pensacola's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Pensacola's dates instead of trusting one.