Wellington, TX 79095 Frost Dates
Wellington, TX: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/01, about 216 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 215 days after the last spring frost.
Wellington sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 10 weeks until Wellington's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Wellington's last frost
04/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Wellington against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 215 frost-free days, Wellington places 14,111 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 2,345 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 79095's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Wellington can differ from the 79095 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Wellington's frost date answer different questions.