Nevada City, CA 95936 Frost Dates
95936, near Nevada City, CA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/28, roughly 243 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 178 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Nevada City, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Nevada City's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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 Nevada City's last frost
04/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Nevada City against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 178 frost-free days, Nevada City places 25,719 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CA, it ranks 2,344 of 2,555.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 95936: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Nevada City's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Nevada City's dates instead of trusting one.