Cocoa Beach, FL 32931 Frost Dates
Cocoa Beach, FL: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/20, about 145 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/12, 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 Cocoa Beach, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 20 weeks until Cocoa Beach's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
01/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/31 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cocoa Beach against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 365 frost-free days, Cocoa Beach places 1,706 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 695 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 32931's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Cocoa Beach's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Cocoa Beach can differ from the 32931 normal.