Bradenton, FL 34205 Frost Dates
34205, near Bradenton, FL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/16, about 141 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/11, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.
Bradenton 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
Bradenton'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.
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 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.
Bradenton against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 365 frost-free days, Bradenton places 793 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 293 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 34205: the frost range, on how to read the range around Bradenton's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Bradenton can differ from the 34205 normal.