Muenster, TX 76238 Frost Dates
Muenster, TX: when does the frost end?
Around 04/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 216 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 219 days after the last spring frost.
Muenster sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Muenster's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Muenster's last frost
04/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Muenster against the rest of the dataset
About 219 days separate Muenster's last and first frost, putting it 13,043 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 2,315 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 76238's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Muenster's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Muenster can differ from the 76238 normal.