About The Home Almanac

Search for when to put winter tires on, when to plant tomatoes, or when to shut off the outdoor taps, and the internet hands you national averages, decade-old forum threads, and listicles that never quite commit to a date.

Your home runs on your local season, not a national average. The dates that matter, frost, freeze-up, the cold-weather crossing, the planting window, exist in official records. They were just never assembled into one place that respects your time.

The Home Almanac is that place. Every date computed from NOAA's 30-year climate normals at your nearest station. Every external claim cited to the source it came from, with the date it was last verified. No accounts, no apps, no nagging. Set your place once and the whole almanac speaks your climate.

The Home Almanac is built and maintained by Alex Maxey. The data pipelines refresh on a schedule and flag him the moment a source changes, and the whole thing is designed like the reference books that used to earn a permanent spot on the kitchen shelf. Bookmark it; that is the intended use.

Questions and corrections: the methodology page documents every source. If a rule changed before we caught it, the primary link beside it is always the authority.