Edinburg, TX 78541 Frost Dates
Edinburg, TX: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/08, about 133 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/02, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.
Edinburg 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 18 weeks until Edinburg's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Edinburg's last frost
01/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Edinburg against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 365 frost-free days, Edinburg places 477 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 13 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 78541's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Edinburg's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Edinburg can differ from the 78541 normal.