Clovis, CA 93602 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Clovis, CA?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/25, roughly 209 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 12/03, about 253 frost-free days later.
Clovis sits in USDA Zone 9a (20 to 25°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.
What to do before the first frost
About 14 weeks of growing season left in Clovis before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Clovis's last frost
03/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/05 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/22 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Clovis compares
At roughly 253 frost-free days, Clovis places 7,071 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CA, it ranks 2,071 of 2,555.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Clovis's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Clovis can differ from the 93602 normal.