Texas City, TX 77650 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Texas City, TX, ZIP 77650
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 01/25, roughly 150 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 01/01, about 348 frost-free days later.
Texas City sits in USDA Zone 10a (30 to 35°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
Zone 10a around Texas City has about 18 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Texas City's last frost
01/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/21 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 12/23 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Texas City compares
At roughly 348 frost-free days, Texas City places 2,371 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 77 of 2,558.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Texas City can differ from the 77650 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 10a and Texas City's frost date answer different questions.