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Planting zones in Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL
Every ZIP code in this metro is USDA zone 10a. That is unusual — most metros span several zones — and it means the one number people usually look up is the same wherever you are here.
Your ZIP code
Get the exact answer for your address
Everything above describes Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL as a whole. Hardiness zones and freeze dates are published per ZIP code, so yours is exact — enter it and this page will tell you your zone, which NOAA station it comes from and how far away that station is.
What you can sow in Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL now
14 of 32 crops that every one of the 7 NOAA stations serving this metro area agrees still has time to mature — with a week in hand, so this holds until the page is next rebuilt.
- 🧅 Green Onions 55d
- 🥬 Swiss Chard 55d
- 🫘 Bush Beans 55d
- 🥒 Zucchini 55d
- 🎃 Summer Squash 55d
- 🌶️ Okra 55d
- 🥬 Kale 60d
- 🥬 Collards 60d
- 🥒 Cucumbers 60d
- 🫘 Southern Peas 65d
- 🥕 Carrots 70d
- 🌽 Sweet Corn 75d
- 🍅 Tomatoes 60d
- 🌶️ Peppers 65d
The freeze dates here cross the new year, so no single range describes them and none is quoted. Each ZIP code's own station is cited in the lookup above.
A further 16 crops depend on where in Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL you are — its stations disagree about them. The ZIP lookup above settles it for one address.
The growing season at one or more of this metro area's stations crosses 1 January, so a one-year bar would have to start the season after it ended. No chart is drawn rather than a misleading one.
Your freeze dates
No freeze range is shown for Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL, because the freeze window here crosses New Year, so an earliest-to-latest range would be arithmetic on dates that do not sit in order. The tools below still answer for individual ZIP codes here, and will say what applies.
Your growing season
NOAA publishes a growing-season length for each station, and across the 7 stations serving Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL it runs 327–365 days . That figure is published, not computed from the two freeze dates — subtracting one from the other gives the wrong answer wherever a season crosses New Year. Mean summer high (June–August) runs 88–91 °F , at or above the 90 °F point where cool-season crops bolt and tomato and pepper pollen fails — so midsummer sowings of lettuce and its relatives are worth holding here. Summer rain over the same months runs 18.7–22.6" across those 6 stations, against the rough inch a week — about 13 inches over the same 92 days — that a vegetable garden is usually reckoned to want. At the middle station that is covered, so watering in Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL is for the gaps between storms rather than the whole season. The inches are NOAA's published normals; the inch a week is a rule of thumb, and it takes no account of a 89 °F summer afternoon drying the soil faster than a cool one.
What lives through a zone 10a winter
Winter hardiness runs on the zone alone, so this one is exact for the whole of Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL rather than a range. Of 74 perennial fruits, nuts, berries, vegetables and herbs, 25 come through a zone 10a winter — and 49 of the failures are not about cold at all, but about winters too mild to break dormancy or summers too hot.
Among them: Mint, Greek Oregano, Mulberry, Jujube, Wine Grape, Asian Persimmon, Fig, Cardoon. See the full list with reasons.
At least one station here freezes across the new year, which puts the two ends of a spread on opposite sides of the calendar. Drawing it would produce a bar spanning almost the whole year and meaning nothing, so none is drawn.
The 7 stations behind these numbers
All 7 NOAA stations whose normals this page quotes, spanning about 90 km north to south. Every one is named with its identifier in the station list below — this page does not single one out, because no one station speaks for a whole metro area.
A relative sketch, not a map with a projection: longitude is adjusted for latitude so the shape is not stretched, and there is no basemap. For the one station nearest a specific address, with its real distance, use the ZIP lookup above.
Every figure above comes from these, and each is named so you can check it. Which station serves a given ZIP code, and how far away it is, varies across the metro — the table below gives it per ZIP code rather than this page averaging it.
| Station | NOAA ID | Last spring freeze | First fall freeze | Season |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melbourne Beach A1A, FL | USC00085603 | January 16 | January 13 | 365 days |
| Melbourne INTL AP, FL | USW00012838 | January 20 | January 12 | 365 days |
| Melbourne Wfo, FL | USC00085612 | January 24 | January 9 | 359 days |
| Palm Bay, FL | USC00086761 | January 30 | January 11 | 343 days |
| Scottsmoor 2.5 Ssw, FL | USC00088051 | February 10 | January 8 | 327 days |
| Titusville 7 E, FL | USW00092821 | January 29 | January 16 | 353 days |
| Titusville, FL | USC00088942 | January 25 | January 13 | 362 days |
These are medians, not averages — NOAA publishes freeze dates as a probability distribution, and half of years freeze later than the date shown.
Every ZIP code in Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL
Zones are published per ZIP code, not per metro area, so this is the exact answer rather than the metro area's average. The station column is the nearest one to that ZIP code's centroid and how far away it is — the same figure the tools use, shown here so you can see which ZIP codes are well covered and which are reaching.
| ZIP code | USDA zone | Nearest NOAA station | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 32754 | 10a | Scottsmoor 2.5 Ssw, FL | 6.1 km |
| 32775 | 10a | Scottsmoor 2.5 Ssw, FL | 4.1 km |
| 32780 | 10a | Titusville, FL | 11.3 km |
| 32796 | 10a | Titusville, FL | 2.8 km |
| 32899 | 10a | Titusville 7 E, FL | 8.1 km |
| 32901 | 10a | Melbourne INTL AP, FL | 2.6 km |
| 32903 | 10a | Melbourne INTL AP, FL | 5.2 km |
| 32904 | 10a | Melbourne Wfo, FL | 18.3 km |
| 32905 | 10a | Melbourne Beach A1A, FL | 5.5 km |
| 32907 | 10a | Melbourne INTL AP, FL | 9.8 km |
| 32908 | 10a | Palm Bay, FL | 6.9 km |
| 32909 | 10a | Palm Bay, FL | 2.2 km |
| 32920 | 10a | Titusville 7 E, FL | 21.9 km |
| 32922 | 10a | Titusville 7 E, FL | 27.4 km |
| 32925 | 10a | Melbourne Wfo, FL | 15.9 km |
| 32926 | 10a | Titusville, FL | 26.8 km |
| 32927 | 10a | Titusville, FL | 17.9 km |
| 32931 | 10a | Melbourne Wfo, FL | 23.2 km |
| 32934 | 10a | Melbourne Wfo, FL | 6.3 km |
| 32935 | 10a | Melbourne Wfo, FL | 3.6 km |
| 32937 | 10a | Melbourne Wfo, FL | 8.4 km |
| 32940 | 10a | Melbourne Wfo, FL | 14.4 km |
| 32949 | 10a | Palm Bay, FL | 8.4 km |
| 32950 | 10a | Melbourne Beach A1A, FL | 8.4 km |
| 32951 | 10a | Melbourne Beach A1A, FL | 13.1 km |
| 32952 | 10a | Melbourne Wfo, FL | 23.0 km |
| 32953 | 10a | Titusville 7 E, FL | 16.9 km |
| 32955 | 10a | Melbourne Wfo, FL | 23.7 km |
| 32959 | 10a | Titusville 7 E, FL | 20.2 km |
| 32976 | 10a | Palm Bay, FL | 11.8 km |
ZIP-code positions are area centroids, so a large rural ZIP code's listed distance is measured from the middle of its area rather than from any particular address in it.
Your own ZIP
Work out your own dates
Each of these takes a ZIP code and answers for that ZIP alone, citing the station it used and how far away it is. There is a ZIP box in the header of every page.
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What survives my winter?
Runs on the hardiness zone, so it answers for all of Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL at once — zone 10a across 74 perennial fruits, berries, vegetables and herbs.
- When do I start my seeds?
Dates every spring job from your own last freeze — sow indoors, set out, direct sow.
- When do I sow the next round?
How often each crop is worth re-sowing, and when the next sowing is due.
- What can I still plant?
Counts the growing days left before your first fall freeze, crop by crop.
Other places to compare
These metros are also entirely zone 10a, so the winter answer here is the same one they get — the freeze dates and the spring calendar are their own.
Gardening in Florida — zones 8b– 11b covers the whole state: how its 1,008 ZIP codes divide between 7 hardiness zones, and the freeze dates across every NOAA station in it.
Other metro areas in FL:
- Ocala, FL Zones 9a–9b
- Tallahassee, FL Zone 9a
- Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL Zones 8b–9b
- Port St. Lucie, FL Zones 10a–10b
- Naples-Marco Island, FL Zones 10a–10b
- Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL Zones 8b–9b
- Panama City-Panama City Beach, FL Zones 9a–9b
- Homosassa Springs, FL Zones 9a–9b
- Punta Gorda, FL Zones 10a–10b
- Wildwood-The Villages, FL Zones 9a–9b
- Sebastian-Vero Beach-West Vero Corridor, FL Zone 10a
- Sebring, FL Zones 9b–10a
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- Soaker hose and drip kitsThe stations here publish no ordinary freeze window, so frost is not what limits the season — water is, through a summer that does not stop.
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Sources
Where these numbers come from
The hardiness zone is the USDA 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map, published per ZIP code by PRISM at Oregon State. The freeze dates are NOAA's 1991–2020 Climate Normals, read from every station whose normals cover a ZIP code in this metro. Nothing here is estimated, and no station stands in for another.
This page names no single station on purpose. Picking one to represent a metro sounds reasonable and is not: the station serving the most ZIP codes is an artifact of where ZIP centroids happen to fall, and it selects a lock on the Monongahela for Pittsburgh and a far southern suburb for Chicago. A range across every station is true; a single cited date for a whole metro is not.