Lomita, CA 91616 Frost Dates
91616, near Lomita, CA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/09, about 134 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/05, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.
Lomita 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
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
Lomita's growing season runs about 365 days, ranking 1,446 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within CA, it ranks 731 of 2,555.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 91616: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 10a and Lomita's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Lomita's dates instead of trusting one.