Fall · September 8, 2026
Springfield, Missouri
Right now
37°C / 98°F
Partly cloudy · wind 9 km/h · 31% RH
Soil (6 cm)
30°C / 86°F
Warm-season seeds go
Hardiness zone
7a
est. from 10-yr extreme low -17°C
Frost window
Apr 14 – Nov 2
~202 frost-free days · first frost in ~55 days
Sun
06:49 – 19:31
sunrise – sunset today
Moon
Waning Crescent
10% lit · solunar good · full 2026-09-26
7-day forecast
America/Chicago
Tue
Partly cloudy
37° / 23°
dry
Wed
Drizzle
36° / 25°
0.2 mm
Thu
Drizzle
28° / 22°
1.55 mm
Fri
Overcast
31° / 20°
dry
Sat
Thunderstorms
30° / 20°
1.8 mm
Sun
Showers
35° / 22°
9.3 mm
Mon
Drizzle
36° / 22°
0.3 mm
Writing your field guide — reading the forecast, the moon and the map…
Your ecological region
Central Hardwoods & Interior Plateaus
The Ohio Valley, Kentucky and Tennessee plateaus, the Ozarks and Missouri: oak-hickory forest broken by farmland and big rivers.
Regional guide →Your hardiness zone
Zone 7a
Estimated from a 10-year average extreme low of -17°C. What grows, what bites and what to forage across your zone.
Zone guide →Get this guide for Springfield every week
Frost warnings, what's biting, what's ripening. One email, Sunday evening.