Giddings, TX 78960 Frost Dates
78960, near Giddings, TX: the frost window
Around 03/04 is the usual last spring frost, about 188 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/25, roughly 267 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 9a (20 to 25°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Giddings, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Giddings'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.
Why 03/04 isn't a guarantee
03/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Giddings against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 267 frost-free days, Giddings places 5,848 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,026 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 78960: the frost range, on how to read the range around Giddings's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Giddings can differ from the 78960 normal.