Capitola, CA 95062 Frost Dates
Capitola, CA: when does the frost end?
Around 01/29 is the usual last spring frost, about 154 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/13, roughly 323 days after the last spring frost.
Capitola 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
With roughly 15 weeks until Capitola's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Capitola's last frost
01/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Capitola against the rest of the dataset
Capitola's growing season runs about 323 days, ranking 3,264 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within CA, it ranks 1,393 of 2,555.
Learn more
Before leaning on 95062's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 10a and Capitola's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Capitola's dates instead of trusting one.