Cocoa Beach, FL 32952 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Cocoa Beach, FL, ZIP 32952
Around 01/20 is the usual last spring frost, about 145 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 01/12, about 365 frost-free days later.
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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 10a around Cocoa Beach has about 20 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
01/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/14 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 12/31 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Cocoa Beach compares
At roughly 365 frost-free days, Cocoa Beach places 1,707 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 696 of 1,609.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Cocoa Beach can differ from the 32952 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 10a and Cocoa Beach's frost date answer different questions.