Amarillo, TX 79111 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Amarillo, TX?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/13, about 228 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/27, about 195 frost-free days later.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Amarillo, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 9 weeks of growing season left in Amarillo before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Amarillo's last frost
04/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/29 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/29 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Amarillo compares
At roughly 195 frost-free days, Amarillo places 19,138 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 2,473 of 2,558.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Amarillo's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Amarillo can differ from the 79111 normal.