Venice, FL 34291 Frost Dates
34291, near Venice, FL: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 02/01, roughly 157 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/06, roughly 336 days after the last spring frost.
Venice 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
Venice'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.
The actual range around Venice's last frost
02/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Venice against the rest of the dataset
About 336 days separate Venice's last and first frost, putting it 2,714 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 1,083 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 34291: 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 34291 normal.