Pacific Grove, CA 93950 Frost Dates
Pacific Grove, CA: when does the frost end?
Around 01/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 126 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/30, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Pacific Grove in Zone 10a (30 to 35°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 18 weeks until Pacific Grove's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Pacific Grove against the rest of the dataset
About 365 days separate Pacific Grove's last and first frost, putting it 1,637 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within CA, it ranks 786 of 2,555.
Learn more
Before leaning on 93950's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 10a and Pacific Grove's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Pacific Grove's dates instead of trusting one.