Colorado Springs, CO 80995 Frost Dates
80995, near Colorado Springs, CO: the frost window
Around 05/03 is the usual last spring frost, about 248 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/08, roughly 158 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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
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
Colorado Springs's growing season runs about 158 days, ranking 32,845 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within CO, it ranks 160 of 624.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 80995: local microclimates, on what one yard in Colorado Springs can differ from the 80995 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Colorado Springs's frost date answer different questions.