Soledad, CA 93960 Frost Dates
Soledad, CA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/23, roughly 238 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/03, roughly 189 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 Soledad, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Soledad's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Soledad's last frost
04/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Soledad against the rest of the dataset
Soledad's growing season runs about 189 days, ranking 21,414 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within CA, it ranks 2,317 of 2,555.
Learn more
Before leaning on 93960's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Soledad's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Soledad can differ from the 93960 normal.