Manitou Springs, CO 80904 Frost Dates
Manitou Springs, CO: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 06/03, about 279 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/17, roughly 102 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Manitou Springs in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 3 weeks until Manitou Springs's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Manitou Springs's last frost
06/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Manitou Springs against the rest of the dataset
About 102 days separate Manitou Springs's last and first frost, putting it 39,651 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within CO, it ranks 523 of 624.
Learn more
Before leaning on 80904's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Manitou Springs's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Manitou Springs can differ from the 80904 normal.