Cape Coral, FL 33932 Frost Dates
33932, near Cape Coral, FL: the frost window
Around 01/16 is the usual last spring frost, about 141 days away. 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.
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 332 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 89 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 33932: local microclimates, on what one yard in Cape Coral can differ from the 33932 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 10b and Cape Coral's frost date answer different questions.