Bowling Green, FL 33835 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Bowling Green, FL?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 01/24, roughly 149 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 01/07, about 352 frost-free days later.
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 Bowling Green, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 19 weeks of growing season left in Bowling Green before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Bowling Green's last frost
01/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/20 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 Bowling Green compares
At roughly 352 frost-free days, Bowling Green places 2,293 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,011 of 1,609.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Bowling Green's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Bowling Green can differ from the 33835 normal.