Georgetown, TX 78627 Frost Dates
78627, near Georgetown, TX: the frost window
Around 03/06 is the usual last spring frost, about 190 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/24, roughly 259 days after the last spring frost.
Georgetown sits in USDA Zone 9a (20 to 25°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
Georgetown's growing season runs out in roughly 13 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Georgetown against the rest of the dataset
About 259 days separate Georgetown's last and first frost, putting it 6,536 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 1,364 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 78627: local microclimates, on what one yard in Georgetown can differ from the 78627 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Georgetown's frost date answer different questions.