Gonzales, CA 93925 Frost Dates
93925, near Gonzales, CA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 01/29, roughly 154 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/10, roughly 325 days after the last spring frost.
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 Gonzales, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Gonzales's growing season runs out in roughly 15 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 Gonzales's last frost
01/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Gonzales against the rest of the dataset
Gonzales's growing season runs about 325 days, ranking 3,218 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within CA, it ranks 1,380 of 2,555.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 93925: the frost range, on how to read the range around Gonzales's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Gonzales can differ from the 93925 normal.