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Covina, CA 91724 Frost Dates

91724, near Covina, 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 12/28, roughly 354 days after the last spring frost.

Zone 10a (30 to 35°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 Covina, not a forecast for this year.

Stretching the season past the first frost

Covina's growing season runs out in roughly 17 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 Covina's last frost

01/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Covina against the rest of the dataset

Covina's growing season runs about 354 days, ranking 2,173 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within CA, it ranks 977 of 2,555.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 91724: local microclimates, on what one yard in Covina can differ from the 91724 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 10a and Covina's frost date answer different questions.