Coachella, CA 92514 Frost Dates
Coachella, CA: when does the frost end?
Around 12/31 is the usual last spring frost, about 125 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/27, 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 Coachella, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 17 weeks until Coachella's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Coachella against the rest of the dataset
About 365 days separate Coachella's last and first frost, putting it 934 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within CA, it ranks 386 of 2,555.
Learn more
Before leaning on 92514's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 10a and Coachella's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Coachella's dates instead of trusting one.