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Woodside, CA 94064 Frost Dates

94064, near Woodside, CA: the frost window

Zone 10a

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/02, roughly 186 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/25, roughly 268 days after the last spring frost.

Woodside sits in USDA Zone 10a (30 to 35°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

Woodside's growing season runs out in roughly 13 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.

How much risk comes with planting early here

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 5,759 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within CA, it ranks 1,984 of 2,555.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 94064: the frost range, on how to read the range around Woodside's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Woodside can differ from the 94064 normal.