Tequesta, FL 33469 Frost Dates
33469, near Tequesta, FL: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 01/26, roughly 151 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/16, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Tequesta in Zone 10b (35 to 40°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Tequesta'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
01/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 02/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Tequesta against the rest of the dataset
About 365 days separate Tequesta's last and first frost, putting it 1,854 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 802 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 33469: local microclimates, on what one yard in Tequesta can differ from the 33469 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 10b and Tequesta's frost date answer different questions.