Wellington, KS: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00148670, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,224 ft, 37.268, -97.419. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 12	Oct 25
Earliest	Mar 11 (2012)	Sep 24 (1989)
Latest	May 14 (1953)	Nov 13 (2021)
Trend	0.6 days earlier per decade	1.1 days later per decade
Years with data	73	68

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 4 and the median first fall date is Nov 6.

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.

Chart

Last spring frost (32°F)

First fall frost (32°F)

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

Year by year

Year	Last spring 32°F	First fall 32°F	Last spring 28°F	First fall 28°F
2025	Apr 8	Nov 10	Mar 21	Nov 10
2024	Mar 29	Oct 16	Mar 28	Nov 23
2023	Apr 24	Oct 30	Mar 28	Oct 30
2022	Apr 15	Oct 18	Mar 13	Oct 19
2021	Apr 22	Nov 13	Mar 3	Nov 13
2020	Apr 19	Oct 26	Apr 4	Oct 26
2019	Apr 13	Oct 29	Apr 1	Oct 29
2018	Apr 19	no data	Apr 17	no data
2017	no data	Oct 28	no data	Oct 28
2016	Apr 3	no data	Mar 26	no data
2015	Apr 28	Nov 13	Apr 28	Nov 22
2014	Apr 19	Nov 1	Apr 16	Nov 11
2013	May 4	Oct 19	Apr 25	Nov 12
2012	Mar 11	Oct 7	Mar 4	Oct 27
2011	Mar 28	Oct 20	Mar 16	Nov 4
2010	Apr 9	Nov 5	Apr 9	Nov 6
2009	Apr 8	Oct 27	Apr 8	Nov 26
2008	Apr 15	Oct 27	Mar 24	Oct 28
2007	Apr 13	Nov 2	Apr 9	Nov 22
2006	Mar 29	Oct 22	Mar 25	Oct 22
2004	Apr 12	Nov 4	Feb 27	Nov 30
2003	Apr 10	Oct 26	Apr 10	Nov 23
2002	Apr 4	Oct 17	Apr 4	Nov 22
2001	Apr 17	Oct 16	Mar 26	Nov 20
2000	Apr 9	Oct 8	Mar 17	Oct 8
1999	Mar 27	Oct 24	Mar 16	Nov 24
1998	Mar 22	Nov 11	Mar 22	Nov 11
1997	Apr 15	Oct 26	Apr 13	Nov 7
1996	Apr 23	Nov 2	Apr 12	Nov 11
1995	Apr 27	no data	Apr 12	no data
1994	Apr 13	no data	Apr 7	no data
1993	Apr 21	Oct 21	Apr 2	Oct 27
1992	Apr 3	Nov 4	Apr 2	Nov 5
1991	Mar 31	Oct 29	Mar 30	Oct 30
1990	Apr 12	no data	Apr 6	no data
1989	Apr 12	Sep 24	Apr 11	Oct 19
1988	Apr 11	Nov 8	Mar 19	Nov 16
1987	Apr 6	Oct 21	Apr 4	Nov 10
1986	Mar 21	Nov 10	Mar 21	Nov 11
1985	Apr 6	Sep 26	Mar 17	Nov 20
1984	Apr 30	Sep 30	Mar 25	Sep 30
1983	Apr 15	Nov 10	Apr 15	Nov 11
1982	Apr 22	Oct 20	Apr 7	Nov 4
1981	Apr 6	Oct 23	Mar 23	Nov 10
1980	Apr 15	Oct 24	Apr 14	Oct 29
1979	Apr 9	Oct 10	Apr 4	Nov 3
1978	Apr 21	Oct 14	Mar 26	Nov 7
1977	Apr 5	Oct 12	Mar 31	Nov 10
1976	Apr 5	Oct 8	Apr 1	Oct 17
1975	Apr 13	Oct 16	Apr 4	Oct 25
1974	Apr 5	Nov 6	Apr 5	Nov 6
1973	Apr 27	Oct 29	Apr 10	Oct 29
1972	Apr 9	Oct 19	Apr 4	Oct 19
1971	Apr 15	Nov 3	Apr 7	Nov 7
1970	Apr 5	Oct 16	Apr 5	Nov 5
1969	Mar 30	Oct 14	Mar 30	Nov 4
1968	Apr 5	Oct 28	Apr 5	Nov 11
1967	Mar 21	Oct 27	Mar 19	Nov 4
1966	Apr 21	Oct 16	Apr 21	Oct 16
1965	Apr 28	Oct 12	Mar 26	Nov 27
1964	Apr 9	Oct 9	Apr 8	Nov 20
1963	Mar 21	Nov 1	Mar 21	Nov 13
1962	Apr 13	Oct 25	Apr 7	Oct 25
1961	May 2	Oct 26	Apr 6	Oct 26
1960	Apr 5	Oct 20	Mar 25	Oct 20
1959	Apr 22	Oct 18	Apr 13	Oct 27
1958	Apr 7	Oct 1	Mar 20	Nov 18
1957	Apr 14	Nov 8	Apr 13	Nov 9
1956	Apr 20	Nov 8	Apr 17	Nov 9
1955	Apr 7	no data	Mar 28	no data
1954	May 4	Oct 30	Apr 1	Oct 30
1953	May 14	Oct 27	Apr 20	Nov 9
1952	Apr 15	Oct 7	Apr 10	Oct 7
1951	Apr 16	Oct 28	Apr 16	Nov 1

"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.