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Glendale, CA 91205 Frost Dates

91205, near Glendale, CA: the frost window

Zone 10a

The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/08, about 133 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/07, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.

Glendale sits in USDA Zone 10a (30 to 35°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

Glendale'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.

The actual range around Glendale's last frost

01/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Glendale against the rest of the dataset

About 365 days separate Glendale's last and first frost, putting it 368 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within CA, it ranks 123 of 2,555.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 91205: the frost range, on how to read the range around Glendale's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Glendale can differ from the 91205 normal.