Sand City, CA 93955 Frost Dates
Sand City, CA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/03, about 128 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/28, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Sand City 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 17 weeks until Sand 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 Sand City's last frost
01/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Sand City against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 365 frost-free days, Sand City places 2,001 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CA, it ranks 900 of 2,555.
Learn more
Before leaning on 93955's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 10a and Sand City's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Sand City's dates instead of trusting one.