Matador, TX: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00415658, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 2,360 ft, 34.025, -100.812. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 3	Nov 6
Earliest	Mar 7 (2015)	Oct 13 (1986)
Latest	May 3 (1954)	Dec 7 (1998)
Trend	little change (less than half a day per decade)	little change (less than half a day per decade)
Years with data	70	67

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 19 and the median first fall date is Nov 15.

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

"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.