Gulf Breeze, FL 32561 Frost Dates
32561, near Gulf Breeze, FL: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 02/14, roughly 170 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/09, roughly 301 days after the last spring frost.
Gulf Breeze 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
Gulf Breeze'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Gulf Breeze against the rest of the dataset
Gulf Breeze's growing season runs about 301 days, ranking 3,971 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 1,323 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32561: 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 32561 normal.