Colorado Springs, CO 80935 Frost Dates
Colorado Springs, CO: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/03, about 248 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/08, roughly 158 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Colorado Springs, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 6 weeks until Colorado 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 Colorado Springs's last frost
05/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Colorado Springs against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 158 frost-free days, Colorado Springs places 32,830 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CO, it ranks 145 of 624.
Learn more
Before leaning on 80935's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Colorado Springs can differ from the 80935 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Colorado Springs's frost date answer different questions.