St. Pete Beach, FL 33715 Frost Dates
St. Pete Beach, FL: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 01/17, roughly 142 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/15, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.
St. Pete Beach sits in USDA Zone 10b (35 to 40°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 St. Pete Beach's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around St. Pete Beach's last frost
01/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/31 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
St. Pete Beach against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 365 frost-free days, St. Pete Beach places 1,743 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 706 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 33715's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in St. Pete Beach can differ from the 33715 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 10b and St. Pete Beach's frost date answer different questions.