Bakersfield, CA 93313 Frost Dates
Bakersfield, CA: when does the frost end?
Around 01/17 is the usual last spring frost, about 142 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/15, roughly 334 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Bakersfield in Zone 9b (25 to 30°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 16 weeks until Bakersfield'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
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.
Bakersfield against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 334 frost-free days, Bakersfield places 2,760 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CA, it ranks 1,251 of 2,555.
Learn more
Before leaning on 93313's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Bakersfield's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Bakersfield's dates instead of trusting one.