Daly City, CA 94132 Frost Dates
94132, near Daly City, CA: the frost window
Around 12/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 124 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/25, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Daly City in Zone 10b (35 to 40°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
Daly City's growing season runs out in roughly 17 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
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
About 365 days separate Daly City's last and first frost, putting it 524 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within CA, it ranks 234 of 2,555.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 94132: local microclimates, on what one yard in Daly City can differ from the 94132 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 10b and Daly City's frost date answer different questions.