Benavides, TX 78376 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Benavides, TX?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/30, about 155 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 12/18, about 323 frost-free days later.
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 Benavides, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 16 weeks of growing season left in Benavides before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Benavides's last frost
01/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/01 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 12/25 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Benavides compares
At roughly 323 frost-free days, Benavides places 3,276 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 206 of 2,558.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Benavides's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Benavides can differ from the 78376 normal.