Winter Park, FL 34778 Frost Dates
34778, near Winter Park, FL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/17, about 142 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/13, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.
Winter Park sits in USDA Zone 9b (25 to 30°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
Winter Park'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.
Why 01/17 isn't a guarantee
01/17 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.
Winter Park against the rest of the dataset
About 365 days separate Winter Park's last and first frost, putting it 1,115 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 469 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 34778: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Winter Park's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Winter Park's dates instead of trusting one.