Stockton, CA 95202 Frost Dates
95202, near Stockton, CA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/05, about 161 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/08, roughly 305 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Stockton in Zone 9b (25 to 30°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Stockton'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 Stockton's last frost
02/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/27 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Stockton against the rest of the dataset
About 305 days separate Stockton's last and first frost, putting it 3,717 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within CA, it ranks 1,502 of 2,555.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 95202: the frost range, on how to read the range around Stockton's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Stockton can differ from the 95202 normal.