Lomita, CA 90202 Frost Dates
90202, near Lomita, CA: the frost window
Around 01/09 is the usual last spring frost, about 134 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/05, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 10b (35 to 40°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Lomita, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Lomita's growing season runs out in roughly 19 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
01/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lomita against the rest of the dataset
About 365 days separate Lomita's last and first frost, putting it 1,293 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within CA, it ranks 578 of 2,555.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 90202: the frost range, on how to read the range around Lomita's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Lomita can differ from the 90202 normal.