Goleta, CA 93014 Frost Dates
93014, near Goleta, CA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 12/31, roughly 125 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/20, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 10b (35 to 40°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 Goleta, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Goleta's growing season runs out in roughly 16 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Goleta's last frost
12/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/29 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Goleta against the rest of the dataset
Goleta's growing season runs about 365 days, ranking 1,032 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within CA, it ranks 445 of 2,555.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 93014: local microclimates, on what one yard in Goleta can differ from the 93014 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 10b and Goleta's frost date answer different questions.