Gainesville, FL 32633 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Gainesville, FL, ZIP 32633
Around 03/03 is the usual last spring frost, about 187 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 12/02, about 277 frost-free days later.
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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 9a around Gainesville has about 14 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/01 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/23 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Gainesville compares
At roughly 277 frost-free days, Gainesville places 4,954 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,448 of 1,609.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Gainesville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Gainesville's dates instead of trusting one.