Golinda, TX 76685 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Golinda, TX, ZIP 76685
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.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°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 Golinda, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8b around Golinda has about 10 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 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 9,790 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 2,069 of 2,558.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Golinda can differ from the 76685 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Golinda's frost date answer different questions.