Bayside, TX 78340 Frost Dates
Bayside, TX: when does the frost end?
Around 01/23 is the usual last spring frost, about 148 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/01, roughly 347 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 9b (25 to 30°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Bayside, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 18 weeks until Bayside'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
01/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bayside against the rest of the dataset
About 347 days separate Bayside's last and first frost, putting it 2,418 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 86 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 78340's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Bayside can differ from the 78340 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Bayside's frost date answer different questions.