Lomita, CA 90608 Frost Dates
Lomita, CA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 01/09, roughly 134 days out. 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
With roughly 19 weeks until Lomita'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
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
At roughly 365 frost-free days, Lomita places 1,326 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CA, it ranks 611 of 2,555.
Learn more
Before leaning on 90608's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 10b and Lomita's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Lomita's dates instead of trusting one.