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San Bernardino, CA 92407 Frost Dates

San Bernardino, CA: when does the frost end?

Zone 10a

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/05, roughly 250 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 176 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 San Bernardino, not a forecast for this year.

Stretching the season past the first frost

With roughly 9 weeks until San Bernardino's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around San Bernardino's last frost

05/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/31 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

San Bernardino against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 176 frost-free days, San Bernardino places 26,323 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CA, it ranks 2,353 of 2,555.

Learn more

Before leaning on 92407's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around San Bernardino's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in San Bernardino can differ from the 92407 normal.