Planting decisions, built on real climate data
Frost dates from NOAA's 1991–2020 climate normals and zones from the USDA hardiness map, turned into the answer you actually wanted: can I still plant this?
Tools
- What can I still plant? Counts the growing days left before your first fall freeze and tells you, crop by crop, whether there is still time.
- What survives my winter? Reads your USDA hardiness zone and works through the perennial fruit, berries, vegetables and herbs that live through it — and the ones that fail for being too warm.
The data underneath
- NOAA stations
- 7,125
- Each publishing freeze normals. Old Farmer's Almanac advertises 6,000+.
- ZIP codes
- 40,502
- With a USDA 2023 hardiness zone. 33,394 are matched to a station within 100 km.
- Median station distance
- 11.9 km
- Shown on every result, because a distant station is a different climate.
Nothing here is estimated or interpolated. Where a location has no station close enough to describe honestly, the tool says so and shows no frost date rather than a number you would reasonably assume was local.