Winter Park, FL 32857 Frost Dates
32857, near Winter Park, 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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Winter Park in Zone 10a (30 to 35°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
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.
The actual range around Winter Park's last frost
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
Winter Park's growing season runs about 365 days, ranking 1,101 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 455 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32857: the frost range, on how to read the range around Winter Park's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Winter Park can differ from the 32857 normal.