Cape Coral, FL 33994 Frost Dates
33994, 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.
Cape Coral sits in USDA Zone 10b (35 to 40°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
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
About 365 days separate Cape Coral's last and first frost, putting it 337 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 94 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 33994: 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.