Sarasota, FL 34280 Frost Dates
Sarasota, FL: when does the frost end?
Around 01/16 is the usual last spring frost, about 141 days away. 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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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
At roughly 365 frost-free days, Sarasota places 823 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 319 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 34280's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 10a and Sarasota's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Sarasota's dates instead of trusting one.