Sarasota, FL 34239 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.
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
01/15 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
About 365 days separate Sarasota's last and first frost, putting it 817 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 313 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 34239'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 34239 normal.