Angleton, TX 77542 Frost Dates
77542, near Angleton, TX: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/29, about 154 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/31, roughly 333 days after the last spring frost.
Angleton 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
Angleton's growing season runs out in roughly 18 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 Angleton's last frost
01/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/27 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Angleton against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 333 frost-free days, Angleton places 2,839 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 106 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 77542: local microclimates, on what one yard in Angleton can differ from the 77542 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Angleton's frost date answer different questions.