Daly City, CA 94127 Frost Dates
Daly City, CA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 12/30, about 124 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/25, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.
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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 17 weeks until Daly City's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 12/30 isn't a guarantee
12/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Daly City against the rest of the dataset
Daly City's growing season runs about 365 days, ranking 522 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within CA, it ranks 232 of 2,555.
Learn more
Before leaning on 94127's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Daly City can differ from the 94127 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 10a and Daly City's frost date answer different questions.