Frost dates for Auburn, California
Half of years have their last spring frost by February 25 — but 1 year in 10 still frosts after April 7.
Every other site gives you one date. A frost date is not a date: it is a percentile from 30 years of records at a nearby weather station, and planting to the median means losing the crop in half of years. Both numbers are below, so you can choose the risk yourself.
The odds
Last spring frost
- Frost this late in 1 year in 10
- April 7
- 1 year in 5
- March 28
- 3 years in 10
- March 14
- 2 years in 5
- March 3
- Half of years (the median)
- February 25
First fall freeze
- Freeze this early in 1 year in 10
- November 15
- 1 year in 5
- November 22
- 3 years in 10
- November 28
- 2 years in 5
- December 1
- Half of years (the median)
- December 5
- Growing season
- about 286 days
- Hardiness zones nearby
- 9a, 9b
Where these numbers come from
NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 Climate Normals, station Auburn (USC00040383), at 38.91, -121.08. These are that station's own records, unshifted. The further your garden is from it, the less exactly they describe your ground — the planner resolves the nearest station to your own ZIP and lowers its confidence with distance, rather than presenting one number as if it were measured in your yard.
Cold air also pools in low ground on the clear, still nights when frost happens, so a hollow can freeze while a slope a hundred metres away does not. No table can know that about your garden. Your own logged frosts eventually can.
ZIP codes nearest this station
95602, 95603, 95608, 95610, 95614, 95621, 95628, 95630, 95634, 95635, 95648, 95650, 95651, 95658, 95661, 95662, 95663, 95664, 95670, 95677, 95678, 95681, 95703, 95722, 95736, 95746, 95747, 95765, 95841, 95842, 95843, 95949.
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Nearby stations
The nearest stations, and how their last-frost dates compare — the frost gradient across your area, which no single station shows.
- Woodland 1 Wnw, CA — last frost by February 7
- Lodi Hcn, CA — last frost by February 9
- Livermore Hcn, CA — last frost by February 15
- Oakland Metro Intl Ap, CA — last frost by January 7
- San Francisco Oceanside, CA — last frost by December 30
- Mt Hamilton, CA — last frost by May 3
Other stations in California.
- Skyline Ridge Preserve, CA — last frost by March 21
- Fresno 5 Ne, CA — last frost by January 30
- Woodland Hills Pierce College, CA — last frost by January 24
- Burbank Glendale Pasadena Ap, CA — last frost by December 31
- Wrightwood, CA — last frost by May 16
- Torrance Ap, CA — last frost by January 9
- Lake Arrowhead, CA — last frost by May 5
- Tustin Irvine Rch Hcn, CA — last frost by January 5