Last Frost Day

Frost history / Williams 35 Nnw, AZ

Williams 35 Nnw, AZ: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00053155, 2008 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 5,990 ft, 35.755, -112.338. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 13Oct 15
EarliestApr 26 (2016)Sep 23 (2017)
LatestMay 30 (2011)Nov 2 (2014)
Trend2.5 days earlier per decade5.1 days later per decade
Years with data1617

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 30 and the median first fall date is Oct 27.

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 14201020202009: Apr 272010: May 252011: May 302012: May 272013: May 82014: May 132015: May 102016: Apr 262017: May 192018: May 32019: May 272020: May 202021: May 242022: May 132023: May 62024: May 6

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11201020202008: Oct 112009: Oct 12010: Oct 262011: Oct 72012: Oct 252013: Oct 42014: Nov 22015: Oct 312016: Oct 42017: Sep 232018: Oct 152019: Oct 102020: Oct 262021: Oct 122022: Oct 232023: Oct 292024: Oct 18

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
2024May 6Oct 18May 6Oct 30
2023May 6Oct 29Apr 21Oct 29
2022May 13Oct 23May 12Oct 23
2021May 24Oct 12May 23Oct 13
2020May 20Oct 26May 20Oct 26
2019May 27Oct 10Apr 13Oct 19
2018May 3Oct 15Apr 21Nov 1
2017May 19Sep 23May 19Nov 8
2016Apr 26Oct 4Apr 2Nov 17
2015May 10Oct 31Apr 27Nov 5
2014May 13Nov 2May 7Nov 3
2013May 8Oct 4Apr 19Oct 14
2012May 27Oct 25Apr 14Oct 25
2011May 30Oct 7May 10Oct 27
2010May 25Oct 26May 3Oct 27
2009Apr 27Oct 1Apr 26Oct 8
2008no dataOct 11no dataOct 11

"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.