Bay Lake, FL 34747 Frost Dates
34747, near Bay Lake, FL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/28, about 153 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/06, roughly 342 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 Bay Lake, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Bay Lake'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
01/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/25 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.
Bay Lake against the rest of the dataset
Bay Lake's growing season runs about 342 days, ranking 2,564 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 1,064 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 34747: local microclimates, on what one yard in Bay Lake can differ from the 34747 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 10a and Bay Lake's frost date answer different questions.