Manitou Springs, CO 80901 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Manitou Springs, CO, ZIP 80901
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 06/03, roughly 279 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 09/17, about 102 frost-free days later.
Manitou Springs sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6a around Manitou Springs has about 3 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Manitou Springs's last frost
06/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 05/21 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 06/23 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Manitou Springs compares
At roughly 102 frost-free days, Manitou Springs places 39,650 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CO, it ranks 522 of 624.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Manitou Springs's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Manitou Springs's dates instead of trusting one.