Salinas, CA 93901 Frost Dates
Salinas, CA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/04, about 160 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/06, roughly 311 days after the last spring frost.
Salinas sits in USDA Zone 9b (25 to 30°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 14 weeks until Salinas's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Salinas's last frost
02/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Salinas against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 311 frost-free days, Salinas places 3,522 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CA, it ranks 1,462 of 2,555.
Learn more
Before leaning on 93901's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Salinas's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Salinas's dates instead of trusting one.