Frost dates for Sarasota Bradenton Ap, Florida
Half of years have their last spring frost by January 15 — but 1 year in 10 still frosts after February 8.
Every other site gives you one date. A frost date is not a date: it is a percentile from 30 years of records at a nearby weather station, and planting to the median means losing the crop in half of years. Both numbers are below, so you can choose the risk yourself.
The odds
Last spring frost
- Frost this late in 1 year in 10
- February 8
- 1 year in 5
- February 1
- 3 years in 10
- January 27
- 2 years in 5
- January 20
- Half of years (the median)
- January 15
First fall freeze
- Freeze this early in 1 year in 10
- December 24
- 1 year in 5
- December 30
- 3 years in 10
- January 2
- 2 years in 5
- January 6
- Half of years (the median)
- January 10
- Growing season
- about 365 days
- Hardiness zones nearby
- 10a, 10b
Where these numbers come from
NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 Climate Normals, station Sarasota Bradenton Ap (USW00012871), at 27.40, -82.56. These are that station's own records, unshifted. The further your garden is from it, the less exactly they describe your ground — the planner resolves the nearest station to your own ZIP and lowers its confidence with distance, rather than presenting one number as if it were measured in your yard.
Cold air also pools in low ground on the clear, still nights when frost happens, so a hollow can freeze while a slope a hundred metres away does not. No table can know that about your garden. Your own logged frosts eventually can.
ZIP codes nearest this station
34201, 34202, 34203, 34205, 34207, 34208, 34209, 34210, 34211, 34212, 34215, 34216, 34217, 34221, 34222, 34228, 34231, 34232, 34233, 34234, 34235, 34236, 34237, 34239, 34242, 34243.
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Nearby stations
The nearest stations, and how their last-frost dates compare — the frost gradient across your area, which no single station shows.
- St Petersburg, FL — last frost by January 17
- Tarpon Spgs Sewage Plt Hcn, FL — last frost by January 20
- Ft Myers Page Fld Ap Hcn, FL — last frost by January 16
- Kissimmee, FL — last frost by January 28
- Leesburg Muni Ap, FL — last frost by January 26
- Orlando Sanford Ap, FL — last frost by January 24
Other stations in Florida.
- Palm Beach Gardens, FL — last frost by January 21
- Gainesville Rgnl Ap, FL — last frost by March 3
- Royal Palm Rs, FL — last frost by January 20
- Jacksonville Nas, FL — last frost by February 1