Amarillo, TX: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00023047, 1951 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 3,587 ft, 35.233, -101.709. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 16	Oct 25
Earliest	Mar 14 (1963)	Sep 21 (1983)
Latest	May 4 (1978)	Nov 22 (1965)
Trend	little change (less than half a day 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 Apr 4 and the median first fall date is Nov 4.

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