Livingston, CA 95303 Frost Dates
95303, near Livingston, CA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 01/06, roughly 131 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/20, roughly 351 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Livingston 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
Livingston's growing season runs out in roughly 16 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 01/06 isn't a guarantee
01/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Livingston against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 351 frost-free days, Livingston places 2,300 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CA, it ranks 1,016 of 2,555.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 95303: the frost range, on how to read the range around Livingston's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Livingston can differ from the 95303 normal.