Galt, CA 95632 Frost Dates
Galt, CA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 02/09, roughly 165 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/05, roughly 301 days after the last spring frost.
Galt 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
With roughly 14 weeks until Galt'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
02/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Galt against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 301 frost-free days, Galt places 3,939 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CA, it ranks 1,632 of 2,555.
Learn more
Before leaning on 95632's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Galt's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Galt's dates instead of trusting one.