Goleta, CA 93102 Frost Dates
93102, near Goleta, CA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 12/31, about 125 days from today. 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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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
At roughly 365 frost-free days, Goleta places 1,033 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CA, it ranks 446 of 2,555.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 93102: the frost range, on how to read the range around Goleta's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Goleta can differ from the 93102 normal.