Cape Canaveral, FL 32920 Frost Dates
32920, near Cape Canaveral, FL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/29, about 154 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/16, roughly 353 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 Cape Canaveral, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Cape Canaveral'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
01/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 02/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cape Canaveral against the rest of the dataset
About 353 days separate Cape Canaveral's last and first frost, putting it 2,244 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 973 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32920: local microclimates, on what one yard in Cape Canaveral can differ from the 32920 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 10a and Cape Canaveral's frost date answer different questions.