Winter Park, FL 32886 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.
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
Winter Park's growing season runs about 365 days, ranking 1,111 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 465 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 32886's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Winter Park's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Winter Park can differ from the 32886 normal.