Sarasota, FL 34204 Frost Dates
Sarasota, 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 01/11, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.
Sarasota sits in USDA Zone 10a (30 to 35°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
With roughly 19 weeks until Sarasota's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Sarasota's last frost
01/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Sarasota against the rest of the dataset
Sarasota's growing season runs about 365 days, ranking 804 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 300 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 34204's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Sarasota can differ from the 34204 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 10a and Sarasota's frost date answer different questions.