Montague, CA 96044 Frost Dates
Montague, CA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/04, about 249 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 168 days after the last spring frost.
Montague sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 8 weeks until Montague's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Montague's last frost
05/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/31 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Montague against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 168 frost-free days, Montague places 29,739 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CA, it ranks 2,406 of 2,555.
Learn more
Before leaning on 96044's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Montague's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Montague's dates instead of trusting one.