King City, CA 93954 Frost Dates
King City, CA: when does the frost end?
Around 05/08 is the usual last spring frost, about 253 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 165 days after the last spring frost.
King City sits in USDA Zone 9a (20 to 25°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 8 weeks until King City's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around King City's last frost
05/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
King City against the rest of the dataset
About 165 days separate King City's last and first frost, putting it 30,519 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within CA, it ranks 2,412 of 2,555.
Learn more
Before leaning on 93954's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around King City's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in King City can differ from the 93954 normal.