Bay City, TX 77414 Frost Dates
77414, near Bay City, TX: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 02/20, roughly 176 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/03, roughly 290 days after the last spring frost.
Bay City sits in USDA Zone 9b (25 to 30°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
Bay City's growing season runs out in roughly 14 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Bay City's last frost
02/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bay City against the rest of the dataset
Bay City's growing season runs about 290 days, ranking 4,491 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 632 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 77414: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Bay City's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Bay City's dates instead of trusting one.