Coachella, CA 92572 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.
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 12/31 isn't a guarantee
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
At roughly 365 frost-free days, Coachella places 945 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CA, it ranks 397 of 2,555.
Learn more
Before leaning on 92572'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.