Turlock, CA 95324 Frost Dates
95324, near Turlock, CA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/06, about 131 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/20, roughly 351 days after the last spring frost.
Turlock sits in USDA Zone 9a (20 to 25°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
Turlock'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Turlock against the rest of the dataset
About 351 days separate Turlock's last and first frost, putting it 2,297 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within CA, it ranks 1,013 of 2,555.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 95324: local microclimates, on what one yard in Turlock can differ from the 95324 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Turlock's frost date answer different questions.