Altamonte Springs, FL 32714 Frost Dates
32714, near Altamonte Springs, FL: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 01/17, roughly 142 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/13, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.
Altamonte Springs sits in USDA Zone 10a (30 to 35°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
Altamonte Springs's growing season runs out in roughly 20 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 01/17 isn't a guarantee
01/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Altamonte Springs against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 365 frost-free days, Altamonte Springs places 904 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 372 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32714: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 10a and Altamonte Springs's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Altamonte Springs's dates instead of trusting one.