Orlando, FL 32829 Frost Dates
32829, near Orlando, FL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/25, about 150 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/10, roughly 355 days after the last spring frost.
Orlando 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
Orlando's growing season runs out in roughly 19 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
01/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Orlando against the rest of the dataset
Orlando's growing season runs about 355 days, ranking 2,125 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 928 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32829: local microclimates, on what one yard in Orlando can differ from the 32829 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 10a and Orlando's frost date answer different questions.