Tampa, FL 33608 Frost Dates
Tampa, FL: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 01/20, roughly 145 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/12, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.
Tampa sits in USDA Zone 10a (30 to 35°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 20 weeks until Tampa's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
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
About 365 days separate Tampa's last and first frost, putting it 68 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 30 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 33608's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Tampa can differ from the 33608 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 10a and Tampa's frost date answer different questions.