Albany, CA 94706 Frost Dates
94706, near Albany, CA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/03, about 128 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/01, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.
Albany 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
Albany's growing season runs out in roughly 18 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 01/03 isn't a guarantee
01/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Albany against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 365 frost-free days, Albany places 1,479 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CA, it ranks 760 of 2,555.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 94706: the frost range, on how to read the range around Albany's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Albany can differ from the 94706 normal.