Weimar, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
On paper, artichoke, fig, california poppy, and cabbage all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Weimar, no two yards are alike.
A low spot, a south-facing slope, or a stand of trees moves the frost date and sun across a single Weimar lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Weimar — the short answer
Weimar, Texas: USDA zone 9a, about 314 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 9a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Jan 29
- Colorado County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 9
- Colorado County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~314
- Colorado County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- City area
- 1K acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. No 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid, so the hard-freeze dates are Colorado County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9a is Weimar's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Weimar's 314-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Weimar
Each reading below is measured for Weimar itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsWeimar runs about 314 days between hard freezes (read from Colorado County, the closest normal to Weimar) — close to year-round growing.
Frost is rarely the limit here; winter plantings are as real as summer ones, and the harder question is which crops shrug off the summer heat.
Grow cool-season crops through the mild winter, and choose heat-tolerant varieties for the summer beds.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredWeimar sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a.
The zone sets which perennials, shrubs, and fruit trees live through an average winter here — a plant rated for a colder zone is a safe bet, one rated warmer needs winter protection or gets treated as an annual.
Match perennials and fruit to the zone before you buy, so nothing you plant is a gamble against the cold.
USDA PHZM 2023
The kind of country Weimar is in
Weimar sits in the Texas Blackland Prairies — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Weimar's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Colorado County is mostly Western Gulf Coastal Plain. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Weimar
Every plant below cleared Weimar's own zone 9a and its 314-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Weimar?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 1; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Jan 29 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 9 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. And with a calendar this mild, the honest answer is that planting barely stops — winter opens seasons colder regions never see.
What's on the federal record near Weimar
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Weimar. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BK MART 105Underground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- ED STREICH GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- DONS REPAIR SHOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- COUNTRY SIDE KWIK STOP 1Underground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- GINDLERS WAREHOUSEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- WEIMAR CITYBrownfields · 1300 ft
- CITY OF WEIMARUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- BRASHER MOTOR CO OF WEIMAR INCBrownfields · 1300 ft
- BRASHER MOTORUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- WEIMER SHEET METAL WORKSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- VICTOR WANJURA JRUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- HERDER TRUCK LINESUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Weimar's center, not your beds. Run your own address for what's upwind of you specifically.
Environmental Intelligence
The counts behind that headline — every source type on the record near Weimar.
Total Sites
70
within ~10 miles of Weimar
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Weimar
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Weimar
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Weimar, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Weimar — Underground Storage Tanks (53 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (5 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Weimar
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Weimar average
Your land is one point inside Weimar
Everything above resolves to Weimar as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 1K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Colorado County’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this city’s own centroid. Your parcel is one point inside that footprint. Slope, tree cover, a low spot that pools cold air, and what is in the soil are all resolved at the address, and none of them are visible at city scale. That is the honest boundary of this page, and the reason the next step is a reading of your own ground rather than a better local average.
Your Lot vs the Weimar Average
Weimar Average
- ●USDA Zones 9a, averaged across Weimar
- ●One soil character for all of Weimar
- ●Frost dates read at Weimar's scale: Jan 29 to Dec 9
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Weimar's 9a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Weimar
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Weimar, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Weimar averages can't show:
We read public map data around Weimar — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Weimar average
How we know this about Weimar
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Colorado County’s record, because none resolves here; boundaries and acreage from US Census TIGER/Line 2025; the contamination records from the federal sources named in their beats above. Soil is not read at city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-resolution survey in our data, which is why you will find no soil grid here rather than a statewide one wearing a local label. The resolution ledger below names every figure this page inherited.
Common questions about Weimar
When does frost risk typically end in Weimar?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Weimar typically lands around Jan 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — earlier than the light-frost dates most charts quote. That marks the hard freeze, not the last light frost — lighter frosts keep biting past it, which is why tender transplants here wait until about Feb 19.
When is the first frost in Weimar?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Weimar typically arrives around Dec 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 25, so the watching starts about Nov 9 — about 314 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Weimar?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Weimar sees about 314 frost-free days — roughly Jan 29 through Dec 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Feb 19 to Nov 25, about 279 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Weimar?
The federal record around Weimar is a meaningful one — 70 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (53), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out — so a soil test before new food beds is a sensible precaution here, not a reason to hold back from growing. Remember that proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what sits where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Weimar?
From about Nov 9 the job here turns from planting to protecting — the last start even a 30-day crop can finish. As the season closes around the first 28°F hard freeze near Dec 9 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals), three moves buy time: row cover or an old sheet over tender plants on still, clear nights; water the soil the afternoon before a freeze, so it holds warmth overnight; and harvest tomatoes, peppers and basil before Dec 9. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Weimar's scale — its 9a band and its 314-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Weimar's numbers: we read soil, sun, drainage and frost at your exact address. Try it for 14 days — no card required.
What this page reads at Weimar’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Weimar's own scale — the 1,480 acres it covers and 70 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Weimar's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 70 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Weimar, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Weimar's boundary and the 1,480 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9a and a ~314-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Weimar sits in the Texas Blackland Prairies — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Weimar has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Colorado County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Weimar's 1,480 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Colorado County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Colorado County
- The growing challenges every Texas grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Texas
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Colorado County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Weimar's 1,480 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Weimar you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,480 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out, measured from the town centrehow we read the record →
- Where cold air settles, which slopes face the sun, and which way the wind runs on your own ground — measured at your address, and averaged away by any Weimar-wide figureread your own land →
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