Camarillo, CA 93012 Frost Dates
Camarillo, 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 12/28, 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 Camarillo, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 17 weeks until Camarillo's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Camarillo's last frost
12/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Camarillo against the rest of the dataset
Camarillo's growing season runs about 365 days, ranking 727 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within CA, it ranks 312 of 2,555.
Learn more
Before leaning on 93012's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Camarillo can differ from the 93012 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 10a and Camarillo's frost date answer different questions.