Del Rey Oaks, CA 93924 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Del Rey Oaks, CA?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 01/02, roughly 127 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 12/23, about 363 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 Del Rey Oaks, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 17 weeks of growing season left in Del Rey Oaks before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Del Rey Oaks's last frost
01/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 01/20 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 12/06 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Del Rey Oaks compares
About 363 days separate Del Rey Oaks's last and first frost, putting it 2,048 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within CA, it ranks 934 of 2,555.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Del Rey Oaks's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Del Rey Oaks can differ from the 93924 normal.