Desert Hot Springs, CA 92256 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Desert Hot Springs, CA, ZIP 92256
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/14, about 198 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/28, about 255 frost-free days later.
Zone 9b (25 to 30°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 Desert Hot Springs, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 9b around Desert Hot Springs has about 13 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Desert Hot Springs's last frost
03/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/08 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/01 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Desert Hot Springs compares
About 255 days separate Desert Hot Springs's last and first frost, putting it 6,891 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within CA, it ranks 2,068 of 2,555.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Desert Hot Springs can differ from the 92256 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Desert Hot Springs's frost date answer different questions.