Winter Park, FL 32877 Frost Dates
Winter Park, FL: when does the frost end?
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
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
About 365 days separate Winter Park's last and first frost, putting it 1,109 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 463 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 32877's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Winter Park can differ from the 32877 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 10a and Winter Park's frost date answer different questions.