Indian Wells, CA 92210 Frost Dates
92210, near Indian Wells, CA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 12/31, roughly 125 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/27, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Indian Wells in Zone 10a (30 to 35°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Indian Wells'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 Indian Wells's last frost
12/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Indian Wells against the rest of the dataset
Indian Wells's growing season runs about 365 days, ranking 1,889 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within CA, it ranks 873 of 2,555.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 92210: local microclimates, on what one yard in Indian Wells can differ from the 92210 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 10a and Indian Wells's frost date answer different questions.