Menifee, CA 92596 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Menifee, CA, ZIP 92596
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 01/31, roughly 156 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 12/10, about 315 frost-free days later.
Menifee 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 9b around Menifee has about 15 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Menifee's last frost
01/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/28 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 12/31 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Menifee compares
At roughly 315 frost-free days, Menifee places 3,398 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CA, it ranks 1,413 of 2,555.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Menifee's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Menifee can differ from the 92596 normal.