Frost dates in Fort Lauderdale, Florida

NOAA 1991–2020 normals for a 32 °F freeze. Low spots and the edge of town run colder than downtown.

Short answer

Frost is too rare in Fort Lauderdale to put a date on: at NOAA's Ft Lauderdale Executive Airport station, 4 miles from the middle of Fort Lauderdale, it hit 32 °F in fewer than 1 year in 10. Fort Lauderdale is in USDA planting zone 11a.

Weather stations around Fort Lauderdale

The first row is the date most people in Fort Lauderdale go by. The others show how far the dates move across the area.

Station	Last spring frost	First fall frost	Frost-free
Ft Lauderdale Executive Airport 4 mi away, 14 ft	Frost too rare to date (32 °F in under 1 year in 10)
Ft Lauderdale Beach 3 mi away, 4 ft	Frost too rare to date (32 °F in under 1 year in 10)
Ft Lauderdale 4 mi away, 16 ft	Frost too rare to date (32 °F in under 1 year in 10)
Ft Lauderdale Hollywood Airport 5 mi away, 11 ft	Frost too rare to date (32 °F in under 1 year in 10)
Hollywood 8 mi away, 9 ft	Frost too rare to date (32 °F in under 1 year in 10)

Distances are from the middle of Fort Lauderdale as the Census Bureau maps it. The average date is NOAA's 50% date: half of years have a later last frost, or an earlier first one. Plan by the 1-in-10 date if a freeze would cost you plants. The planting zone is the USDA 2023 zone for ZIP code 33311, at the middle of the city.

Your exact ZIP code

Fort Lauderdale covers a lot of ground. For the station nearest your own street, and its planting zone, type your ZIP code.

How these dates work

Frost dates come from NOAA's 1991 to 2020 Climate Normals, which work out from each weather station's daily lows how likely the last spring freeze and the first fall freeze (32 °F) are by each date. We use the station nearest the middle of your ZIP code and show its height and distance, since a station on a hill or by a lake can differ from your yard.

The average date is the 50% date: half of years have a freeze after the spring date or before the fall one. The 1-in-10 dates are NOAA's 10% dates, the ones to plan by if a late freeze would cost you plants. Within one yard, cold air pools in low spots while walls and paving hold heat, so some corners freeze before others.

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