Goliad, TX 77960 Frost Dates
77960, near Goliad, TX: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 02/17, roughly 173 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/08, roughly 299 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Goliad in Zone 9b (25 to 30°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Goliad's growing season runs out in roughly 15 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
02/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Goliad against the rest of the dataset
About 299 days separate Goliad's last and first frost, putting it 4,180 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 487 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 77960: the frost range, on how to read the range around Goliad's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Goliad can differ from the 77960 normal.