El Paso, TX 79918 Frost Dates
El Paso, TX: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/02, roughly 186 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/20, roughly 261 days after the last spring frost.
El Paso sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°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 12 weeks until El Paso's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
El Paso against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 261 frost-free days, El Paso places 6,258 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,163 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 79918's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in El Paso can differ from the 79918 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and El Paso's frost date answer different questions.