Cape Coral, FL 33909 Frost Dates
Cape Coral, FL: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 01/16, roughly 141 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/13, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 10b (35 to 40°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 Cape Coral, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 20 weeks until Cape Coral'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
01/16 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 02/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cape Coral against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 365 frost-free days, Cape Coral places 328 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 85 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 33909's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Cape Coral's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Cape Coral can differ from the 33909 normal.