Sanger, CA 93740 Frost Dates
Sanger, CA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 01/14, roughly 139 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/14, roughly 337 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Sanger in Zone 9b (25 to 30°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 15 weeks until Sanger's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Sanger's last frost
01/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Sanger against the rest of the dataset
About 337 days separate Sanger's last and first frost, putting it 2,671 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within CA, it ranks 1,194 of 2,555.
Learn more
Before leaning on 93740's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Sanger can differ from the 93740 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Sanger's frost date answer different questions.