Colorado Springs, CO 80960 Frost Dates
80960, near Colorado Springs, CO: the frost window
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.
Colorado 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Colorado 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.
Why 05/03 isn't a guarantee
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
About 158 days separate Colorado Springs's last and first frost, putting it 32,841 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within CO, it ranks 156 of 624.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 80960: the frost range, on how to read the range around Colorado Springs's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Colorado Springs can differ from the 80960 normal.