Los Gatos, CA 95033 Frost Dates
95033, near Los Gatos, CA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 02/02, roughly 158 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/06, roughly 310 days after the last spring frost.
Los Gatos sits in USDA Zone 9b (25 to 30°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
Los Gatos's growing season runs out in roughly 14 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Los Gatos's last frost
02/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/14 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.
Los Gatos against the rest of the dataset
About 310 days separate Los Gatos's last and first frost, putting it 3,562 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within CA, it ranks 1,478 of 2,555.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 95033: the frost range, on how to read the range around Los Gatos's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Los Gatos can differ from the 95033 normal.