Winter Park, FL 32794 Frost Dates
32794, near Winter Park, FL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/17, about 142 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/13, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 10a (30 to 35°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Winter Park, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Winter Park'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Winter Park against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 365 frost-free days, Winter Park places 1,091 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 445 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32794: local microclimates, on what one yard in Winter Park can differ from the 32794 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 10a and Winter Park's frost date answer different questions.