Santa Fe, TX 77517 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Santa Fe, TX?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 01/31, roughly 156 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 12/14, about 317 frost-free days later.
Santa Fe 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.
What to do before the first frost
About 15 weeks of growing season left in Santa Fe before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Santa Fe's last frost
01/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/05 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 12/25 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Santa Fe compares
About 317 days separate Santa Fe's last and first frost, putting it 3,377 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 262 of 2,558.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 9b and Santa Fe's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Santa Fe's dates instead of trusting one.