Gulfport, MS 39534 Frost Dates
39534, near Gulfport, MS: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/23, about 179 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/03, roughly 287 days after the last spring frost.
Gulfport sits in USDA Zone 9a (20 to 25°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
Gulfport's growing season runs out in roughly 14 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 Gulfport's last frost
02/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Gulfport against the rest of the dataset
Gulfport's growing season runs about 287 days, ranking 4,575 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MS, it ranks 14 of 523.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 39534: local microclimates, on what one yard in Gulfport can differ from the 39534 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Gulfport's frost date answer different questions.