Built on 30-year NOAA climate normals
The American home, in season.
Garden in. Pool open. Furnace ready. The Almanac computes every seasonal date your home runs on, for your exact place, from official NOAA climate normals and primary sources.
Built for American homes. 2,697 official stations, across all fifty states.
What the Almanac is for
An almanac always told you when to plant, when to brace for the frost, when the season turned. The Home Almanac does that for your exact home, computed from real climate data, and hands you the tools to act on every date of it. Free, and built for American homes.
Your home year
Frost dates, tire windows, and a month-by-month maintenance calendar tuned to your exact place.
Weather
The forecast and the 30-year normals for your station, read against the season you are actually in.
Frost and planting
Last and first frost for your place, and sow-and-harvest windows for dozens of crops.
Moving
A dated interprovincial checklist, and a climate match between your old town and your new one.
The tools
Every tool, one almanac
A handful that are in season right now. See every tool and planner.
Weather and Work Windows
Live radar mapped to your exact location, a seven-day outlook, and a go or no-go read on outdoor jobs, paint, mow, concrete, line-dry, for the week ahead.
Open the weather SpringFrost and Planting Calendar
Last and first frost for your place from the 30-year NOAA record, and sow, transplant, and harvest windows for 32 crops fitted to your real season length.
See my dates Year-roundThe Home Year
The full American maintenance calendar: what to do to your house every month, tuned to your climate region, from the first thaw to freeze-up.
Open the year SeasonalPool Calendar
When to open, close, and winterize, computed from the 30-year climate record at your nearest station.
Get pool dates SeasonalLawn Calendar
First mow, overseed window, last fertilizer, last cut, and snow-mold watch for your exact place.
Get lawn dates CompareMoving Climate Match
Compare any two places side by side: frost, growing season, winter lows, and summer highs, and what changes about the home year when you move.
Compare two placesWhy trust it
Reference-grade, by construction
- 2,697 official stations, computed individually. No national averages, no guesswork.
- Primary sources only. Every law and deadline links to the government page it came from, with the date we last verified it.
- Auto-refreshed. Data pipelines re-run on a schedule and re-check every source, so a changed law or a new climate normal shows up here, not months later. Stale reference is wrong reference.
- No accounts, ever. Your place is saved in your browser. We measure how the tools are used with anonymous, cookie-free analytics, never who uses them. We could not sell your data if we wanted to; we never have it.
Your whole home year for your town on one page you can print and keep: frost dates, planting windows, and each month's jobs. Plus the dates that matter, by email, when the season turns. No account, no spam, one tap to stop.
Questions, answered plainly
What is The Home Almanac?
A free American reference that computes the dates your home runs on: last and first frost, planting windows, seasonal home tasks, and the month-by-month maintenance year. Everything is calculated for your nearest official weather station from NOAA climate normals, with primary sources cited beside every rule.
Where does the data come from?
Climate figures come from NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals across 2,697 American stations. Other rules and deadlines are taken from the responsible government source, linked beside every claim, and re-verified on a schedule. The methodology page documents every calculation.
Is it free, and do I need an account?
Free, no account, no sign-up. Your chosen place is saved in your own browser and nowhere else. Some pages may carry clearly disclosed affiliate links or quote forms, which never change the dates or advice shown.
Why dates for my exact place instead of my state?
The United States is too big for state-wide advice. Last frost in Miami and last frost in Boston are three months apart, and the first freeze arrives a month earlier in Denver than in Dallas. The Almanac computes from the climate record of your nearest station, not a national average.