El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles), CA 93426 Frost Dates
El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles), CA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/13, about 169 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 02/01, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 9a (20 to 25°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 El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles), not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 22 weeks until El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles)'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
02/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles) against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 365 frost-free days, El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles) places 1,053 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CA, it ranks 463 of 2,555.
Learn more
Before leaning on 93426's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles)'s dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles) can differ from the 93426 normal.