Gainesville, FL 32607 Frost Dates
Gainesville, FL: when does the frost end?
Around 03/04 is the usual last spring frost, about 188 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/04, roughly 274 days after the last spring frost.
Gainesville sits in USDA Zone 9a (20 to 25°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
With roughly 14 weeks until Gainesville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Gainesville's last frost
03/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Gainesville against the rest of the dataset
About 274 days separate Gainesville's last and first frost, putting it 5,137 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 1,481 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 32607's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Gainesville can differ from the 32607 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Gainesville's frost date answer different questions.