Frost dates for Dongguan, China
Frost is rare here. In 30 years of a weather model’s daily lows, a frost came in only 3 of them, so there is no last-frost date to plan around and the growing season runs all year.
- Growing season
- All year
- Hardiness zone nearby
- 10b, estimated from the weather model
Where these numbers come from
Modeled, not measured. No weather station stands behind these dates. They come from ERA5, a reconstruction of the world’s weather from 1991 to 2020 made by ECMWF, Europe’s medium-range weather forecasting agency, for the EU’s Copernicus program, and read here through Open-Meteo. They are the model’s daily lows for the point at 23.25, 113.75, 22 km (14 miles) from the center of Dongguan. A frost here means a low at or below 0 °C (32 °F).
A weather model sees the land in squares about 25 km (16 miles) across, so it can miss what sets one garden apart from the next: a frost hollow, a hillside, a lakeshore, a city’s own warmth. The Milpa planner reads these same numbers for a garden here and grades them A good hunch.
Cold air also pools in low ground on the clear, still nights when frost happens, so a hollow can freeze while a slope a hundred meters away does not. No table can know that about your garden. Your own logged frosts eventually can.
Weather data by Open-Meteo.com, under CC BY 4.0. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information, 2026.
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Nearby cities
The nearest cities with a frost page here, and how their last-frost dates compare.
- Guangzhou, China, frost is rare
- Shenzhen, China, frost is rare
- Zhuhai, China, frost is rare
- Hong Kong, Hong Kong, frost is rare
- Shantou, China, frost is rare
- Maoming, China, frost is rare
Other cities in China.
- Ganzhou, China, last frost by January 28
- Yulin, China, frost is rare
- Zhanjiang, China, frost is rare
- Yongzhou, China, last frost by February 5
- Zhangzhou, China, frost is rare
- Hengyang, China, last frost by January 27
- Xiamen, China, frost is rare
- Liuzhou, China, frost is rare