Sacramento, CA 95835 Frost Dates
Sacramento, CA: when does the frost end?
Around 02/22 is the usual last spring frost, about 178 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/24, roughly 277 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Sacramento 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
With roughly 13 weeks until Sacramento's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Sacramento's last frost
02/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Sacramento against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 277 frost-free days, Sacramento places 4,942 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CA, it ranks 1,808 of 2,555.
Learn more
Before leaning on 95835's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Sacramento can differ from the 95835 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Sacramento's frost date answer different questions.