Clifton, TX 76634 Frost Dates
Clifton, TX: when does the frost end?
Around 03/15 is the usual last spring frost, about 199 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/14, roughly 243 days after the last spring frost.
Clifton 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Clifton's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Clifton's last frost
03/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Clifton against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 243 frost-free days, Clifton places 8,299 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,848 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 76634's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Clifton can differ from the 76634 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Clifton's frost date answer different questions.