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Edinburg, TX 78563 Frost Dates

Edinburg, TX: when does the frost end?

Zone 9b

The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/22, about 147 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/19, roughly 333 days after the last spring frost.

Edinburg sits in USDA Zone 9b (25 to 30°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 16 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

01/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/05 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.

Edinburg against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 333 frost-free days, Edinburg places 2,814 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 103 of 2,558.

Learn more

Before leaning on 78563's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Edinburg's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Edinburg's dates instead of trusting one.