FrostDateCheck

Golinda, TX 76632 Frost Dates

When can you plant in Golinda, TX?

Zone 8b

Around 03/21 is the usual last spring frost, about 205 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/09, about 234 frost-free days later.

Golinda sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°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.

What to do before the first frost

About 10 weeks of growing season left in Golinda before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.

The actual range around Golinda's last frost

03/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/27 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/10 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Golinda compares

At roughly 234 frost-free days, Golinda places 9,789 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 2,068 of 2,558.

Learn more

the frost range covers how to read the range around Golinda's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Golinda can differ from the 76632 normal.