China, TX 77613 Frost Dates
China, TX: when does the frost end?
Around 02/18 is the usual last spring frost, about 174 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/02, roughly 291 days after the last spring frost.
China sits in USDA Zone 9a (20 to 25°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 14 weeks until China's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
02/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/20 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.
China against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 291 frost-free days, China places 4,464 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 612 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 77613's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around China's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in China can differ from the 77613 normal.