Gonzales, TX 78629 Frost Dates
78629, near Gonzales, TX: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/02, roughly 186 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/30, roughly 276 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Gonzales in Zone 9a (20 to 25°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Gonzales'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.
The actual range around Gonzales's last frost
03/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Gonzales against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 276 frost-free days, Gonzales places 5,088 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 830 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 78629: local microclimates, on what one yard in Gonzales can differ from the 78629 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Gonzales's frost date answer different questions.