Venice, FL 34277 Frost Dates
34277, near Venice, FL: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 01/25, roughly 150 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/19, 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 Venice, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Venice's growing season runs out in roughly 21 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
01/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 02/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Venice against the rest of the dataset
Venice's growing season runs about 365 days, ranking 1,126 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 476 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 34277: the frost range, on how to read the range around Venice's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Venice can differ from the 34277 normal.