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Iowa planting calendars & frost dates

13 cities · USDA zones + NOAA frost dates + monthly weather normals

Pick your city for its average last & first frost dates, USDA hardiness zone, a month-by-month typical-weather table, and a crop-by-crop planting schedule — all built from public USDA and NOAA data.

Cities in Iowa

Ames · zone 5b Ankeny · zone 5b Cedar Falls · zone 5a Cedar Rapids · zone 5b Council Bluffs · zone 5b Davenport · zone 5b Des Moines · zone 5b Dubuque · zone 5a Iowa City · zone 5b Sioux City · zone 5a Urbandale · zone 5b Waterloo · zone 5a West Des Moines · zone 5b

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