El Paso, TX 79930 Frost Dates
79930, near El Paso, TX: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/02, about 186 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/20, roughly 261 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°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 El Paso, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
El Paso's growing season runs out in roughly 12 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
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
El Paso's growing season runs about 261 days, ranking 6,262 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 1,167 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 79930: the frost range, on how to read the range around El Paso's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in El Paso can differ from the 79930 normal.