Last Frost Day

Frost history / Catalina Sp, AZ

Catalina Sp, AZ: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00021357, 2009 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 2,707 ft, 32.418, -110.930. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 6Nov 4
EarliestFeb 22 (2014)Oct 13 (2021)
LatestMay 1 (2011)Dec 8 (2017)
Trend9.2 days earlier per decade6.2 days earlier per decade
Years with data1717

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 15 and the median first fall date is Nov 23.

The trend is a straight-line fit through the years with a freeze. A positive spring trend means the last frost now comes later. Short or patchy records give noisy trends.

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Last spring frost (32°F)

Feb 14Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15201020202009: Apr 172010: May 12011: May 12012: Apr 62013: Apr 192014: Feb 222015: Apr 172016: Apr 22017: Mar 82018: Mar 202019: Mar 162020: Apr 112021: Mar 272022: Apr 162023: Apr 62024: Apr 82025: Apr 6

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 11Dec 26201020202009: Oct 292010: Nov 102011: Nov 82012: Nov 112013: Oct 312014: Nov 42015: Nov 172016: Nov 182017: Dec 82018: Nov 122019: Oct 312020: Oct 272021: Oct 132022: Oct 252023: Nov 102024: Oct 312025: Nov 1

Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.

Year by year

YearLast spring 32°FFirst fall 32°FLast spring 28°FFirst fall 28°F
2025Apr 6Nov 1Feb 28Nov 1
2024Apr 8Oct 31Apr 7Nov 7
2023Apr 6Nov 10Apr 6Dec 3
2022Apr 16Oct 25Apr 14Nov 4
2021Mar 27Oct 13Mar 20Dec 17
2020Apr 11Oct 27Mar 29Nov 26
2019Mar 16Oct 31Mar 15Oct 31
2018Mar 20Nov 12Mar 2Nov 12
2017Mar 8Dec 8Feb 26Dec 8
2016Apr 2Nov 18Feb 28Nov 30
2015Apr 17Nov 17Feb 7Nov 23
2014Feb 22Nov 4Feb 5Nov 17
2013Apr 19Oct 31Mar 1Dec 6
2012Apr 6Nov 11Mar 20Dec 10
2011May 1Nov 8Mar 9Dec 5
2010May 1Nov 10Mar 21Nov 10
2009Apr 17Oct 29Apr 5Oct 29

"none" means the station recorded no freeze at that threshold in that half of the year. "no data" means more than 10% of the season's daily readings were missing. Years with no usable data are left out. See the methodology for the rules, and the ZIP lookup for 1991 to 2020 frost probabilities.