Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA 93922 Frost Dates
93922, near Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 01/01, roughly 126 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/30, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 10a (30 to 35°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 Carmel-by-the-Sea, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Carmel-by-the-Sea's growing season runs out in roughly 18 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Carmel-by-the-Sea's last frost
01/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Carmel-by-the-Sea against the rest of the dataset
About 365 days separate Carmel-by-the-Sea's last and first frost, putting it 1,921 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within CA, it ranks 890 of 2,555.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 93922: local microclimates, on what one yard in Carmel-by-the-Sea can differ from the 93922 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 10a and Carmel-by-the-Sea's frost date answer different questions.