Daly City, CA 94014 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Daly City, CA?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 12/30, roughly 124 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 12/25, about 365 frost-free days later.
Zone 10a (30 to 35°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 Daly City, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 17 weeks of growing season left in Daly City before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Daly City's last frost
12/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/13 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 12/02 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Daly City compares
Daly City's growing season runs about 365 days, ranking 511 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within CA, it ranks 221 of 2,555.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 10a and Daly City's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Daly City's dates instead of trusting one.