Sacramento, CA 95833 Frost Dates
95833, near Sacramento, CA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 01/12, roughly 137 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/16, roughly 341 days after the last spring frost.
Sacramento 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
Sacramento'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.
The actual range around Sacramento's last frost
01/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/08 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Sacramento against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 341 frost-free days, Sacramento places 2,575 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CA, it ranks 1,133 of 2,555.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 95833: local microclimates, on what one yard in Sacramento can differ from the 95833 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Sacramento's frost date answer different questions.