Golden City, MO 64748 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Golden City, MO, ZIP 64748
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/11, about 226 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/25, about 198 frost-free days later.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Golden City, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7a around Golden City has about 8 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Golden City's last frost
04/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/27 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/27 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Golden City compares
About 198 days separate Golden City's last and first frost, putting it 18,507 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 511 of 1,129.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Golden City's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Golden City can differ from the 64748 normal.