Woodside, CA 94026 Frost Dates
Woodside, CA: when does the frost end?
Around 03/02 is the usual last spring frost, about 186 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/25, roughly 268 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Woodside in Zone 9b (25 to 30°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 13 weeks until Woodside's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Woodside's last frost
03/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/31 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Woodside against the rest of the dataset
Woodside's growing season runs about 268 days, ranking 5,758 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within CA, it ranks 1,983 of 2,555.
Learn more
Before leaning on 94026's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Woodside's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Woodside's dates instead of trusting one.