San Perlita, TX 78598 Frost Dates
San Perlita, TX: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 01/12, roughly 137 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/01, roughly 362 days after the last spring frost.
San Perlita 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 San Perlita'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
01/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
San Perlita against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 362 frost-free days, San Perlita places 2,081 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 52 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 78598's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in San Perlita can differ from the 78598 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 10a and San Perlita's frost date answer different questions.