Needles, CA 92363 Frost Dates
Needles, CA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/06, about 131 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/02, roughly 365 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 Needles, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 18 weeks until Needles's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Needles's last frost
01/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Needles against the rest of the dataset
Needles's growing season runs about 365 days, ranking 1,898 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within CA, it ranks 879 of 2,555.
Learn more
Before leaning on 92363's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 10a and Needles's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Needles's dates instead of trusting one.