Ceres, CA 95353 Frost Dates
95353, near Ceres, CA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 01/31, roughly 156 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/05, roughly 312 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Ceres 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
Ceres'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 Ceres's last frost
01/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/25 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.
Ceres against the rest of the dataset
About 312 days separate Ceres's last and first frost, putting it 3,467 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within CA, it ranks 1,447 of 2,555.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 95353: the frost range, on how to read the range around Ceres's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Ceres can differ from the 95353 normal.