Los Gatos, CA 95120 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Los Gatos, CA?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/02, about 158 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 12/06, about 310 frost-free days later.
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.
What to do before the first frost
About 14 weeks of growing season left in Los Gatos before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Los Gatos's last frost
02/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/14 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 12/31 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Los Gatos compares
At roughly 310 frost-free days, Los Gatos places 3,563 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CA, it ranks 1,479 of 2,555.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 9b and Los Gatos's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Los Gatos's dates instead of trusting one.