Palm Springs, CA 92263 Frost Dates
Palm Springs, CA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 01/01, roughly 126 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/31, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.
Palm Springs 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
With roughly 18 weeks until Palm Springs's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 01/01 isn't a guarantee
01/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Palm Springs against the rest of the dataset
Palm Springs's growing season runs about 365 days, ranking 922 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within CA, it ranks 377 of 2,555.
Learn more
Before leaning on 92263's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Palm Springs can differ from the 92263 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 10a and Palm Springs's frost date answer different questions.