Tampa, FL 33534 Frost Dates
33534, near Tampa, FL: the frost window
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 Tampa, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Tampa'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.
The actual range around Tampa's last frost
01/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/27 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Tampa against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 365 frost-free days, Tampa places 52 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 14 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 33534: local microclimates, on what one yard in Tampa can differ from the 33534 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 10a and Tampa's frost date answer different questions.