Pasadena, TX 77505 Frost Dates
Pasadena, TX: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/30, about 155 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/28, roughly 330 days after the last spring frost.
Pasadena 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
With roughly 17 weeks until Pasadena's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Pasadena's last frost
01/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pasadena against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 330 frost-free days, Pasadena places 2,994 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 147 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 77505's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Pasadena's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Pasadena can differ from the 77505 normal.