Last Frost Day

Frost history / Monticello #2, UT

Monticello #2, UT: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00425807, 2011 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 7,086 ft, 37.867, -109.351. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 20Oct 7
EarliestApr 29 (2023)Sep 9 (2020)
LatestJun 9 (2020)Oct 28 (2014)
Trend2.4 days later per decade1.5 days later per decade
Years with data1315

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is May 4 and the median first fall date is Oct 24.

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)

Apr 15Apr 30May 15May 30Jun 1420202012: May 292013: May 42014: May 152015: May 172016: May 92017: May 202019: May 282020: Jun 92021: May 232022: May 222023: Apr 292024: May 222025: May 20

First fall frost (32°F)

Aug 28Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 1120202011: Oct 72012: Oct 72013: Sep 282014: Oct 282015: Oct 272016: Oct 42017: Sep 252018: Oct 82019: Oct 22020: Sep 92021: Oct 112022: Oct 182023: Oct 32024: Oct 212025: Oct 16

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
2025May 20Oct 16May 20Nov 7
2024May 22Oct 21May 9Oct 30
2023Apr 29Oct 3Apr 22Oct 29
2022May 22Oct 18May 4Oct 24
2021May 23Oct 11Apr 24Oct 13
2020Jun 9Sep 9Apr 17Oct 26
2019May 28Oct 2May 22Oct 11
2018no dataOct 8no dataOct 15
2017May 20Sep 25May 19Oct 10
2016May 9Oct 4May 1Oct 4
2015May 17Oct 27May 10Oct 29
2014May 15Oct 28May 14Oct 28
2013May 4Sep 28May 2Oct 4
2012May 29Oct 7Apr 17Oct 25
2011no dataOct 7no dataOct 7

"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.