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Livingston, CA 95334 Frost Dates

Livingston, CA: when does the frost end?

Zone 9a

Around 01/06 is the usual last spring frost, about 131 days away. 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 9a (20 to 25°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

With roughly 16 weeks until Livingston's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

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.

Livingston against the rest of the dataset

About 351 days separate Livingston's last and first frost, putting it 2,303 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within CA, it ranks 1,019 of 2,555.

Learn more

Before leaning on 95334's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Livingston's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Livingston's dates instead of trusting one.