Hollister, CA 95024 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Hollister, CA, ZIP 95024
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/19, about 175 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 12/01, about 287 frost-free days later.
Zone 9b (25 to 30°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 Hollister, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 9b around Hollister has about 14 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Hollister's last frost
02/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 01/10 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/28 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Hollister compares
At roughly 287 frost-free days, Hollister places 4,581 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CA, it ranks 1,719 of 2,555.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Hollister's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Hollister's dates instead of trusting one.