Gulf Breeze, FL 32507 Frost Dates
32507, near Gulf Breeze, FL: the frost window
Around 02/28 is the usual last spring frost, about 184 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/29, roughly 277 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Gulf Breeze in Zone 9a (20 to 25°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
Gulf Breeze'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 Gulf Breeze's last frost
02/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/31 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.
Gulf Breeze against the rest of the dataset
About 277 days separate Gulf Breeze's last and first frost, putting it 4,980 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 1,454 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32507: the frost range, on how to read the range around Gulf Breeze's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Gulf Breeze can differ from the 32507 normal.