Colorado Springs, CO 80936 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Colorado Springs, CO, ZIP 80936
Around 05/03 is the usual last spring frost, about 248 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/08, about 158 frost-free days later.
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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6a around Colorado Springs has about 6 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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/22 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/15 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Colorado Springs compares
At roughly 158 frost-free days, Colorado Springs places 32,831 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CO, it ranks 146 of 624.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Colorado Springs's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Colorado Springs can differ from the 80936 normal.