Cape Coral, FL 33914 Frost Dates
33914, near Cape Coral, FL: the frost window
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
Cape Coral'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.
Why 01/16 isn't a guarantee
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
Cape Coral's growing season runs about 365 days, ranking 330 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 87 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 33914: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 10b and Cape Coral's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Cape Coral's dates instead of trusting one.