Sanger, CA 93714 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Sanger, CA, ZIP 93714
Around 01/14 is the usual last spring frost, about 139 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 12/14, about 337 frost-free days later.
Zone 9b (25 to 30°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 Sanger, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 9b around Sanger has about 15 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Sanger's last frost
01/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/11 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 12/22 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Sanger compares
Sanger's growing season runs about 337 days, ranking 2,663 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within CA, it ranks 1,186 of 2,555.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Sanger's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Sanger's dates instead of trusting one.