Tallahassee, FL: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00093805, 1951 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 63 ft, 30.398, -84.329. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 15	Nov 17
Earliest	Jan 13 (1953)	Oct 18 (1977)
Latest	Apr 23 (1993)	Dec 29 (1986)
Trend	0.5 days later per decade	1.2 days later per decade
Years with data	74	74, 1 with no freeze

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 27 and the median first fall date is Nov 30.

The trend is a straight-line fit through the years with a freeze. A positive spring trend means the last frost now comes later. Short or patchy records give noisy trends.

Chart

Last spring frost (32°F)

First fall frost (32°F)

Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.

Year by year

Year	Last spring 32°F	First fall 32°F	Last spring 28°F	First fall 28°F
2024	Feb 21	Nov 30	Jan 18	Dec 4
2023	Mar 21	Nov 29	Jan 15	Nov 29
2022	Mar 13	Oct 20	Feb 14	Dec 23
2021	Mar 9	Nov 23	Feb 4	Nov 24
2020	Feb 28	Dec 1	none	Dec 2
2019	Mar 7	Dec 3	none	none
2018	Mar 15	Nov 28	Mar 15	Dec 12
2017	Mar 16	Dec 9	Mar 16	Dec 10
2016	Feb 28	Nov 21	Feb 10	none
2015	Feb 20	Dec 20	Feb 20	none
2014	Feb 28	Nov 3	Feb 28	Nov 19
2013	Mar 28	Nov 28	Mar 4	none
2012	Feb 14	Nov 25	Feb 13	Nov 25
2011	Mar 12	Nov 11	Feb 14	Nov 11
2010	Mar 7	Nov 6	Mar 7	Dec 2
2009	Apr 8	Nov 27	Mar 4	Dec 21
2008	Mar 26	Oct 29	Mar 25	Nov 19
2007	Mar 18	Nov 7	Mar 6	Nov 8
2006	Mar 27	Dec 4	Feb 14	Dec 5
2005	Mar 4	Nov 23	Mar 2	Dec 22
2004	Mar 23	Dec 12	Feb 19	Dec 15
2003	Apr 1	Nov 29	Jan 28	Nov 30
2002	Mar 6	Nov 18	Mar 6	Nov 23
2001	Mar 8	Dec 21	Jan 26	Dec 26
2000	Mar 13	Nov 21	Feb 7	Nov 22
1999	Apr 18	Oct 25	Feb 23	Dec 1
1998	Mar 14	Nov 7	Mar 13	Dec 18
1997	Feb 17	Nov 17	Feb 12	Dec 6
1996	Apr 11	Nov 10	Mar 10	Dec 19
1995	Mar 10	Nov 13	Feb 9	Nov 15
1994	Mar 18	none	Mar 17	none
1993	Apr 23	Oct 31	Mar 15	Nov 1
1992	Apr 4	Nov 28	Feb 9	Nov 29
1991	Mar 12	Nov 5	Mar 11	Nov 6
1990	Mar 21	Nov 19	Mar 21	Dec 6
1989	Apr 2	Oct 21	Feb 26	Dec 4
1988	Mar 21	Nov 28	Mar 20	Nov 29
1987	Apr 6	Oct 29	Feb 11	Nov 13
1986	Mar 24	Dec 29	Mar 23	none
1985	Mar 19	Dec 6	Feb 17	Dec 14
1984	Mar 10	Nov 8	Mar 10	Nov 14
1983	Mar 25	Nov 13	Feb 9	Nov 17
1982	Mar 9	Dec 13	Jan 27	Dec 18
1981	Mar 21	Nov 14	Mar 17	Nov 21
1980	Mar 4	Nov 20	Mar 4	Nov 29
1979	Mar 27	Nov 15	Mar 26	Nov 30
1978	Mar 28	Dec 6	Mar 6	Dec 10
1977	Mar 2	Oct 18	Mar 1	Nov 11
1976	Mar 18	Nov 5	Feb 24	Nov 6
1975	Apr 7	Nov 14	Feb 8	Nov 26
1974	Feb 28	Nov 13	Feb 28	Nov 28
1973	Mar 18	Oct 30	Feb 12	Dec 10
1972	Mar 10	Nov 26	Feb 21	Nov 27
1971	Apr 8	Nov 11	Mar 31	Nov 11
1970	Mar 16	Nov 16	Mar 16	Nov 16
1969	Mar 27	Nov 5	Mar 27	Nov 15
1968	Mar 25	Oct 27	Mar 25	Nov 13
1967	Feb 27	Nov 7	Feb 27	Nov 8
1966	Mar 25	Nov 3	Mar 7	Nov 30
1965	Mar 9	Dec 1	Mar 9	Dec 8
1964	Mar 31	Oct 21	Feb 28	Dec 1
1963	Feb 28	Oct 31	Feb 28	Nov 14
1962	Mar 18	Nov 15	Jan 13	Dec 6
1961	Feb 11	Nov 10	Jan 22	Nov 10
1960	Mar 22	Dec 2	Mar 6	Dec 13
1959	Mar 13	Nov 29	Jan 18	Nov 29
1958	Feb 22	Dec 11	Feb 21	Dec 12
1957	Mar 10	Dec 1	Jan 19	Dec 1
1956	Mar 21	Nov 10	Jan 15	Nov 23
1955	Mar 29	Nov 29	Feb 13	Nov 29
1954	Mar 7	Nov 3	none	Dec 7
1953	Jan 13	Nov 27	Jan 4	Dec 18
1952	Feb 8	Nov 22	none	Dec 15
1951	Mar 14	Nov 8	Feb 8	Dec 16

"none" means the station recorded no freeze at that threshold in that half of the year. "no data" means more than 10% of the season's daily readings were missing. Years with no usable data are left out. See the methodology for the rules, and the ZIP lookup for 1991 to 2020 frost probabilities.