Manteca, CA 95336 Frost Dates
95336, near Manteca, CA: the frost window
Around 02/06 is the usual last spring frost, about 162 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/01, roughly 304 days after the last spring frost.
Manteca 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Manteca's growing season runs out in roughly 14 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 Manteca's last frost
02/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/31 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Manteca against the rest of the dataset
Manteca's growing season runs about 304 days, ranking 3,747 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within CA, it ranks 1,516 of 2,555.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 95336: the frost range, on how to read the range around Manteca's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Manteca can differ from the 95336 normal.