Capitola, CA 95073 Frost Dates
95073, near Capitola, CA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/29, about 154 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/13, roughly 323 days after the last spring frost.
Capitola 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
Capitola's growing season runs out in roughly 15 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 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 3,267 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within CA, it ranks 1,396 of 2,555.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 95073: local microclimates, on what one yard in Capitola can differ from the 95073 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Capitola's frost date answer different questions.