Frost dates for Key W, Florida
Frost is rare here. In a typical year this station records no freeze at all, so there is no last-frost date to plan around and the growing season runs all year.
- Growing season
- All year
- Hardiness zone nearby
- 11b
- Summer days
- a usual high of about 32 °C89 °F
- Lettuce and spinach run to seed
- April to September, in hot, long days (how we know)
Summer and rain
A growing garden needs about 25 mm1 in of water a week, rain and watering together. Here is what a normal month brings.
Month by month
- January
- high ~24 °C75 °F · low ~17 °C63 °F · rain ~51 mm2 in
- February
- high ~25 °C76 °F · low ~18 °C64 °F · rain ~50 mm2 in
- March
- high ~26 °C79 °F · low ~19 °C67 °F · rain ~36 mm1.4 in
- April
- high ~28 °C83 °F · low ~22 °C71 °F · rain ~55 mm2.2 in
- May
- high ~30 °C86 °F · low ~23 °C74 °F · rain ~94 mm3.7 in
- June
- high ~31 °C88 °F · low ~25 °C77 °F · rain ~122 mm4.8 in
- July
- high ~32 °C90 °F · low ~25 °C78 °F · rain ~114 mm4.5 in
- August
- high ~32 °C90 °F · low ~26 °C78 °F · rain ~156 mm6.1 in
- September
- high ~31 °C88 °F · low ~25 °C77 °F · rain ~209 mm8.2 in
- October
- high ~30 °C85 °F · low ~24 °C75 °F · rain ~153 mm6 in
- November
- high ~27 °C81 °F · low ~21 °C70 °F · rain ~83 mm3.3 in
- December
- high ~25 °C77 °F · low ~19 °C66 °F · rain ~56 mm2.2 in
Where these numbers come from
NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 Climate Normals, the Key W station (listed by NOAA as Key W WFO, USC00084571), at 24.55, -81.79. These are that station’s own records, unshifted. The further your garden is from it, the less exactly they describe your ground. The planner finds the nearest station to your garden and lowers its confidence with distance, so no number is presented as if it were measured in your garden.
Cold air also pools in low ground on the clear, still nights when frost happens, so a hollow can freeze while a slope a few hundred feet away does not. No table can know that about your garden. A few seasons of your own logged frosts can.
ZIP codes nearest this station
33040.
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Nearby stations
The nearest stations and how their last-frost dates compare. Together they show how frost varies across your area.
- Bahia Honda State Park, FL, frost is rare
- Islamorada, FL, frost is rare
- Marco Island, FL, frost is rare
Other stations in Florida.
- John Pennekamp State Park, FL, frost is rare
- Homestead Gen Aviation Airport, FL, frost is rare
- Naples Municipal Airport, FL, frost is rare
- Miami International Airport, FL, frost is rare
- Fort Myers Page Field Airport, FL, frost is rare
- Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport, FL, frost is rare
- West Palm Beach International Airport, FL, frost is rare
- Palm Beach Gardens, FL, frost is rare