Tampa, FL 33623 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Tampa, FL, ZIP 33623
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 01/20, roughly 145 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 01/12, about 365 frost-free days later.
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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 10a around Tampa 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.
The actual range around Tampa's last frost
01/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/10 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 12/27 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Tampa compares
At roughly 365 frost-free days, Tampa places 77 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 39 of 1,609.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 10a and Tampa's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Tampa's dates instead of trusting one.