Manitou Springs, CO 80919 Frost Dates
80919, near Manitou Springs, CO: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/09, roughly 254 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/06, roughly 150 days after the last spring frost.
Manitou Springs sits in USDA Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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
Manitou Springs's growing season runs out in roughly 6 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 Manitou Springs's last frost
05/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Manitou Springs against the rest of the dataset
About 150 days separate Manitou Springs's last and first frost, putting it 35,281 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within CO, it ranks 334 of 624.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 80919: local microclimates, on what one yard in Manitou Springs can differ from the 80919 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Manitou Springs's frost date answer different questions.