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Winter Park, FL 32868 Frost Dates

Winter Park, FL: when does the frost end?

Zone 10a

Around 01/17 is the usual last spring frost, about 142 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/13, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.

Winter Park 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

With roughly 20 weeks until Winter Park's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

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

At roughly 365 frost-free days, Winter Park places 1,106 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 460 of 1,609.

Learn more

Before leaning on 32868's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 10a and Winter Park's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Winter Park's dates instead of trusting one.