🌱 GrowGuide Almanac

When to plant, anywhere in America 🌱

Local frost dates, planting calendars & climate normals for every U.S. city. Real frost dates, USDA zones and month-by-month weather for 916 U.S. cities — one page, three public datasets combined.

Most "when to plant" tools give you one number. GrowGuide combines the 2023 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map, NOAA 1991–2020 frost-date normals, and NOAA monthly climate normals into a single, honest local page for your city — your hardiness zone, your average last & first frost, your growing-season length, a month-by-month weather table, and a crop-by-crop planting schedule computed from your frost dates.

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Alabama · 11Arizona · 24Arkansas · 10California · 209Colorado · 18Connecticut · 15Delaware · 2District of Columbia · 1Florida · 53Georgia · 11Hawaii · 1Idaho · 6Illinois · 51Indiana · 20Iowa · 13Kansas · 11Kentucky · 4Louisiana · 9Maine · 1Maryland · 7Massachusetts · 34Michigan · 28Minnesota · 12Mississippi · 6Missouri · 14Montana · 4Nebraska · 4Nevada · 6New Hampshire · 3New Jersey · 21New Mexico · 7New York · 17North Carolina · 21North Dakota · 4Ohio · 28Oklahoma · 9Oregon · 12Pennsylvania · 11Rhode Island · 6South Carolina · 12South Dakota · 2Tennessee · 16Texas · 83Utah · 16Vermont · 1Virginia · 16Washington · 25West Virginia · 2Wisconsin · 17Wyoming · 2
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Our free interactive tools return exact frost dates, a 26-crop calendar, and typical weather for any U.S. ZIP.
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How it works

Every city page is generated from public-domain government data — nothing invented. We show the nearest weather station and how far it is, and label frost dates as the 50%-probability date so you know exactly how precise the numbers are. Guidance is advisory: adjust for your own microclimate.