Lakeland, FL 33801 Frost Dates
Lakeland, FL: when does the frost end?
Around 01/15 is the usual last spring frost, about 140 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/10, 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 Lakeland, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 19 weeks until Lakeland's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
01/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/07 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lakeland against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 365 frost-free days, Lakeland places 423 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 110 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 33801's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Lakeland can differ from the 33801 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 10a and Lakeland's frost date answer different questions.