Santa Paula, CA 93009 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Santa Paula, CA?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/21, about 205 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/15, about 235 frost-free days later.
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 Santa Paula, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 11 weeks of growing season left in Santa Paula before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Santa Paula's last frost
03/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/20 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/15 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Santa Paula compares
About 235 days separate Santa Paula's last and first frost, putting it 9,561 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within CA, it ranks 2,146 of 2,555.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 10a and Santa Paula's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Santa Paula's dates instead of trusting one.