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Naples, FL 34117 Frost Dates

34117, near Naples, FL: the frost window

Zone 10a

The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/18, about 143 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/11, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Naples in Zone 10a (30 to 35°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.

Stretching the season past the first frost

Naples's growing season runs out in roughly 19 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.

The actual range around Naples's last frost

01/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/31 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Naples against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 365 frost-free days, Naples places 1,261 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 543 of 1,609.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 34117: the frost range, on how to read the range around Naples's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Naples can differ from the 34117 normal.