Arvin, CA 93241 Frost Dates
93241, near Arvin, CA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/17, about 142 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/15, roughly 334 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 9b (25 to 30°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 Arvin, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Arvin'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 Arvin's last frost
01/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Arvin against the rest of the dataset
About 334 days separate Arvin's last and first frost, putting it 2,767 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within CA, it ranks 1,257 of 2,555.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 93241: local microclimates, on what one yard in Arvin can differ from the 93241 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Arvin's frost date answer different questions.