Bishop, CA 89049 Frost Dates
Bishop, CA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/30, about 245 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/18, roughly 169 days after the last spring frost.
Bishop sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Bishop's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bishop against the rest of the dataset
About 169 days separate Bishop's last and first frost, putting it 29,424 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within CA, it ranks 2,395 of 2,555.
Learn more
Before leaning on 89049's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Bishop can differ from the 89049 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Bishop's frost date answer different questions.