Pinellas Park, FL 33729 Frost Dates
33729, near Pinellas Park, FL: the frost window
Around 01/17 is the usual last spring frost, about 142 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/14, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.
Pinellas Park 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
Pinellas Park'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
01/17 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 02/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pinellas Park against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 365 frost-free days, Pinellas Park places 839 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 329 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 33729: the frost range, on how to read the range around Pinellas Park's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Pinellas Park can differ from the 33729 normal.