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Winter Park, FL 32777 Frost Dates

When can you plant in Winter Park, FL?

Zone 9b

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 01/17, roughly 142 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 01/13, about 365 frost-free days later.

Winter Park 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.

What to do before the first frost

About 20 weeks of growing season left in Winter Park before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.

The actual range around Winter Park's last frost

01/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/09 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 12/26 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Winter Park compares

About 365 days separate Winter Park's last and first frost, putting it 1,086 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 440 of 1,609.

Learn more

the frost range covers how to read the range around Winter Park's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Winter Park can differ from the 32777 normal.