Sarasota, FL 34231 Frost Dates
Sarasota, FL: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/15, about 140 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/10, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 10a (30 to 35°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 Sarasota, not a forecast for this year.
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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
01/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/08 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Sarasota against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 365 frost-free days, Sarasota places 809 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 305 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 34231's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Sarasota's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Sarasota can differ from the 34231 normal.