Cincinnati, OH: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00013841, 1953 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,056 ft, 39.420, -83.822. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 23	Oct 20
Earliest	Apr 2 (2019)	Oct 2 (2003)
Latest	May 22 (2002)	Nov 9 (1956)
Trend	0.6 days earlier per decade	1.1 days earlier per decade
Years with data	35	38

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 4 and the median first fall date is Nov 3.

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
2024	Apr 22	Oct 17	Mar 28	Nov 29
2023	Apr 25	Oct 31	Mar 30	Nov 25
2022	Apr 20	Oct 8	Apr 2	Nov 17
2021	Apr 23	Oct 27	Apr 2	Nov 3
2020	May 9	Oct 17	Apr 16	Nov 2
2019	Apr 2	Oct 18	Apr 1	Nov 6
2018	Apr 20	Oct 18	Apr 10	Nov 8
2017	Apr 8	Oct 25	Mar 23	Nov 10
2016	May 16	Nov 5	Apr 10	Nov 12
2015	Apr 24	Oct 17	Mar 29	Oct 18
2014	Apr 16	Nov 1	Apr 16	Nov 2
2013	Apr 26	Oct 25	Apr 3	Nov 12
2012	Apr 13	Oct 10	Mar 10	Nov 3
2011	Apr 3	Oct 22	Mar 29	Oct 29
2010	Apr 28	Oct 16	Mar 27	Nov 3
2009	Apr 12	Oct 18	Apr 12	Nov 27
2008	Apr 15	Oct 19	Apr 15	Oct 22
2007	Apr 10	Oct 29	Apr 10	Nov 7
2006	Apr 10	Oct 12	Apr 9	Oct 25
2005	May 4	Oct 28	Mar 21	Oct 29
2004	May 4	Oct 5	Apr 6	Nov 8
2003	Apr 23	Oct 2	Apr 6	Oct 24
2002	May 22	Oct 14	Apr 7	Nov 1
2001	Apr 26	Oct 7	Apr 2	Nov 6
2000	Apr 13	Oct 7	Apr 9	Oct 30
1999	Apr 25	Oct 19	Mar 30	Oct 21
1998	no data	Oct 22	no data	Oct 23
1967	Apr 25	Oct 20	Apr 4	Nov 5
1966	May 10	Oct 26	May 10	Nov 2
1965	no data	Oct 25	no data	Oct 29
1960	Apr 11	Oct 21	Apr 10	Oct 25
1959	Apr 14	Oct 18	Mar 28	Nov 3
1958	Apr 30	Nov 6	Mar 23	Nov 7
1957	May 4	Oct 20	Apr 15	Nov 6
1956	Apr 23	Nov 9	Apr 19	Nov 13
1955	Apr 8	Oct 24	Apr 8	Nov 4
1954	May 10	Oct 28	Apr 4	Oct 31
1953	no data	Oct 30	no data	Nov 5

"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.