Port Hueneme, CA 93062 Frost Dates
Port Hueneme, CA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 12/29, roughly 123 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/24, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.
Port Hueneme sits in USDA Zone 10a (30 to 35°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 Port Hueneme's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
12/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Port Hueneme against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 365 frost-free days, Port Hueneme places 1,226 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CA, it ranks 544 of 2,555.
Learn more
Before leaning on 93062's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Port Hueneme can differ from the 93062 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 10a and Port Hueneme's frost date answer different questions.