Lubbock, TX: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00023042, 1951 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 3,259 ft, 33.654, -101.814. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 7	Nov 1
Earliest	Mar 2 (2017)	Oct 7 (1952)
Latest	May 3 (2013)	Nov 23 (2003)
Trend	0.9 days earlier per decade	little change (less than half a day per decade)
Years with data	74	74

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 25 and the median first fall date is Nov 13.

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	Mar 26	Nov 20	Mar 26	Dec 11
2023	Apr 7	Oct 29	Mar 19	Oct 31
2022	Apr 8	Nov 11	Mar 24	Nov 12
2021	Apr 21	Nov 18	Mar 2	Dec 18
2020	Apr 14	Oct 24	Feb 28	Oct 26
2019	Mar 31	Oct 12	Mar 31	Oct 26
2018	Apr 15	Oct 15	Apr 7	Nov 12
2017	Mar 2	Oct 28	Mar 2	Nov 19
2016	Apr 2	Nov 18	Mar 19	Nov 19
2015	Mar 15	Nov 12	Mar 6	Nov 22
2014	Apr 15	Nov 11	Apr 15	Nov 11
2013	May 3	Oct 19	May 3	Nov 22
2012	Mar 4	Oct 8	Mar 3	Oct 27
2011	May 3	Oct 28	Mar 30	Nov 3
2010	Apr 8	Nov 5	Apr 8	Nov 13
2009	Apr 7	Oct 27	Apr 6	Nov 17
2008	Mar 19	Oct 23	Mar 19	Nov 7
2007	Apr 8	Oct 23	Apr 8	Nov 15
2006	Mar 24	Nov 1	Mar 24	Nov 11
2005	Apr 12	Nov 15	Mar 16	Nov 15
2004	Apr 13	Nov 3	Feb 26	Nov 29
2003	Apr 9	Nov 23	Mar 29	Nov 23
2002	Mar 26	Nov 6	Mar 26	Nov 25
2001	Mar 27	Oct 16	Mar 16	Nov 27
2000	Mar 19	Nov 7	Mar 19	Nov 7
1999	Mar 20	Oct 17	Mar 14	Nov 24
1998	Apr 19	Nov 10	Mar 20	Dec 8
1997	Apr 13	Oct 25	Apr 12	Oct 27
1996	Apr 6	Oct 22	Mar 27	Nov 7
1995	Apr 11	Nov 5	Apr 11	Nov 11
1994	Apr 6	Nov 10	Apr 6	Nov 28
1993	Mar 17	Oct 29	Mar 13	Oct 29
1992	Mar 23	Oct 8	Mar 11	Nov 5
1991	Mar 31	Oct 29	Mar 31	Oct 30
1990	Apr 6	Nov 4	Mar 25	Nov 29
1989	Apr 10	Oct 19	Mar 22	Oct 19
1988	Apr 11	Nov 16	Mar 19	Nov 16
1987	Apr 7	Nov 10	Apr 3	Nov 10
1986	Mar 21	Oct 13	Mar 19	Nov 10
1985	Mar 31	Nov 2	Mar 31	Nov 15
1984	Apr 4	Nov 19	Mar 29	Nov 21
1983	Apr 15	Nov 10	Apr 14	Nov 24
1982	Mar 22	Oct 20	Mar 7	Nov 15
1981	Mar 23	Oct 23	Mar 19	Dec 17
1980	Apr 14	Oct 24	Mar 18	Oct 29
1979	Apr 4	Nov 1	Apr 4	Nov 13
1978	Mar 25	Nov 14	Mar 16	Nov 28
1977	Apr 4	Nov 2	Mar 7	Nov 10
1976	Mar 27	Oct 8	Mar 21	Nov 12
1975	Apr 3	Nov 12	Apr 3	Nov 13
1974	Apr 5	Nov 14	Mar 24	Nov 14
1973	Apr 10	Nov 20	Apr 10	Nov 27
1972	Apr 1	Oct 31	Mar 31	Nov 14
1971	Apr 7	Nov 7	Mar 23	Nov 19
1970	May 1	Oct 9	Apr 5	Oct 28
1969	Mar 26	Oct 13	Mar 26	Oct 13
1968	Apr 29	Oct 18	Mar 23	Nov 11
1967	May 2	Oct 27	Mar 16	Nov 3
1966	Mar 24	Oct 15	Mar 23	Nov 1
1965	Mar 27	Nov 22	Mar 26	Nov 29
1964	Apr 8	Nov 20	Apr 8	Nov 21
1963	Mar 20	Nov 18	Mar 14	Nov 23
1962	Apr 7	Nov 12	Mar 31	Nov 20
1961	Apr 15	Nov 3	Mar 13	Nov 3
1960	Apr 3	Oct 31	Mar 18	Nov 10
1959	Apr 13	Nov 5	Apr 13	Nov 5
1958	Apr 14	Nov 1	Mar 18	Nov 18
1957	Apr 14	Oct 27	Apr 13	Nov 19
1956	Apr 10	Oct 31	Apr 10	Nov 9
1955	Apr 7	Oct 24	Mar 28	Oct 30
1954	Apr 1	Oct 31	Mar 31	Nov 5
1953	Apr 18	Nov 8	Mar 5	Nov 20
1952	Apr 10	Oct 7	Apr 10	Nov 10
1951	Apr 16	Nov 1	Apr 13	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.