When to Carve a Pumpkin in British Columbia
Around Vancouver and much of coastal British Columbia, the mean first fall frost lands around November 10, roughly ten days after Halloween.
Home & garden, state by state
Around Vancouver and much of coastal British Columbia, the mean first fall frost lands around November 10, roughly ten days after Halloween.
Vancouver sits at 49.20 degrees north, and on the longest day of the year the sun gives it 16 hours and 1 minute of daylight.
Arkansas pumpkin carvers get a rare gift: frost almost never shows up before Halloween.
Arkansas sits at 34.73 degrees north latitude, measured at Little Rock, and on the longest day of the year the sun gives that spot 14 hours and 20…
Phoenix’s reference station shows no reliable fall freeze at all, with a frost-free season that NOAA records as running a full 365 days.
If you garden in Phoenix or anywhere near the Arizona low desert, the day length on your longest day sits at 14 hours and 13 minutes.
Frost arrives here around September 16 on average, a figure drawn from three decades of Calgary climate data.
At 51.11 degrees north, Alberta’s growing season gets 16 hours and 20 minutes of daylight on the longest day of the year.
Anchorage’s mean first fall frost lands around September 22 to October 1, roughly three to five weeks ahead of Halloween.
At 61.17 degrees north, Anchorage gets 18 hours and 56 minutes of daylight on the longest day of the year.