Guadalupe, CA 93434 Frost Dates
Guadalupe, CA: when does the frost end?
Around 02/04 is the usual last spring frost, about 160 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/13, roughly 315 days after the last spring frost.
Guadalupe 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 15 weeks until Guadalupe's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 02/04 isn't a guarantee
02/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/16 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.
Guadalupe against the rest of the dataset
About 315 days separate Guadalupe's last and first frost, putting it 3,419 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within CA, it ranks 1,428 of 2,555.
Learn more
Before leaning on 93434's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 10a and Guadalupe's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Guadalupe's dates instead of trusting one.