Frost history / Galveston, TX
Galveston, TX: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00012944, 1951 to 1998, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 7 ft, 29.300, -94.800. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Feb 5 | Dec 19 |
| Earliest | Jan 8 (1976) | Nov 18 (1959) |
| Latest | Mar 20 (1965) | Dec 24 (1966) |
| Trend | little change (less than half a day per decade) | 0.6 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 48, 15 with no freeze | 46, 31 with no freeze |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Jan 20 and the median first fall date is Dec 22.
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)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | none | no data | none | no data |
| 1997 | Jan 19 | none | none | none |
| 1996 | Feb 5 | Dec 19 | Feb 4 | none |
| 1995 | none | Dec 10 | none | none |
| 1994 | none | no data | none | no data |
| 1993 | none | none | none | none |
| 1992 | Jan 16 | none | none | none |
| 1991 | none | none | none | none |
| 1990 | none | Dec 22 | none | Dec 23 |
| 1989 | Mar 6 | Dec 16 | Mar 6 | Dec 22 |
| 1988 | Feb 12 | none | none | none |
| 1987 | none | none | none | none |
| 1986 | none | none | none | none |
| 1985 | Feb 3 | Dec 14 | Feb 2 | none |
| 1984 | Jan 21 | none | Jan 19 | none |
| 1983 | none | Dec 22 | none | Dec 22 |
| 1982 | Feb 6 | none | Jan 17 | none |
| 1981 | Feb 12 | none | Feb 11 | none |
| 1980 | Mar 2 | none | Mar 2 | none |
| 1979 | Feb 9 | none | Jan 14 | none |
| 1978 | Feb 19 | none | Jan 20 | none |
| 1977 | Jan 29 | none | Jan 19 | none |
| 1976 | Jan 8 | Nov 28 | Jan 8 | none |
| 1975 | Feb 7 | none | none | none |
| 1974 | none | none | none | none |
| 1973 | Feb 9 | Dec 19 | Jan 12 | none |
| 1972 | Feb 3 | none | none | none |
| 1971 | Feb 8 | none | none | none |
| 1970 | Feb 3 | none | Jan 7 | none |
| 1969 | none | none | none | none |
| 1968 | Jan 14 | none | none | none |
| 1967 | none | none | none | none |
| 1966 | Jan 30 | Dec 24 | Jan 30 | none |
| 1965 | Mar 20 | none | Feb 24 | none |
| 1964 | Jan 14 | none | Jan 13 | none |
| 1963 | Feb 13 | Dec 22 | Jan 24 | Dec 22 |
| 1962 | Jan 12 | Dec 12 | Jan 12 | none |
| 1961 | Jan 29 | none | none | none |
| 1960 | Feb 25 | Dec 21 | Feb 25 | none |
| 1959 | Jan 22 | Nov 18 | Jan 4 | none |
| 1958 | Feb 13 | Dec 14 | none | none |
| 1957 | Jan 17 | none | none | none |
| 1956 | none | none | none | none |
| 1955 | Feb 11 | none | none | none |
| 1954 | Jan 22 | none | none | none |
| 1953 | none | Dec 23 | none | none |
| 1952 | none | none | none | none |
| 1951 | Feb 15 | none | Feb 3 | none |
"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.