St. Cloud, FL 34739 Frost Dates
34739, near St. Cloud, FL: the frost window
Around 01/20 is the usual last spring frost, about 145 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/12, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 9b (25 to 30°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 St. Cloud, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
St. Cloud's growing season runs out in roughly 20 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 St. Cloud's last frost
01/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/31 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
St. Cloud against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 365 frost-free days, St. Cloud places 697 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 230 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 34739: the frost range, on how to read the range around St. Cloud's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in St. Cloud can differ from the 34739 normal.