Clovis, CA 93669 Frost Dates
Clovis, CA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/25, roughly 209 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/03, roughly 253 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 Clovis, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 14 weeks until Clovis's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Clovis's last frost
03/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Clovis against the rest of the dataset
Clovis's growing season runs about 253 days, ranking 7,077 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within CA, it ranks 2,077 of 2,555.
Learn more
Before leaning on 93669's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Clovis can differ from the 93669 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Clovis's frost date answer different questions.