Coachella, CA 92554 Frost Dates
Coachella, 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 12/22, roughly 352 days after the last spring frost.
Coachella sits in USDA Zone 9b (25 to 30°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 17 weeks until Coachella's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 01/06 isn't a guarantee
01/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Coachella against the rest of the dataset
About 352 days separate Coachella's last and first frost, putting it 2,267 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within CA, it ranks 1,007 of 2,555.
Learn more
Before leaning on 92554's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b 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.