Frost dates for Santa Monica Pier, California
Frost is rare here. In a typical year this station records no freeze at all, so there is no last-frost date to plan around and the growing season runs all year.
- Growing season
- All year
- Hardiness zone nearby
- 11a
- Summer days
- a usual high of about 20 °C69 °F
Summer and rain
A growing garden needs about 25 mm1 in of water a week, rain and watering together. Here is what a normal month brings.
- Nearly every drop is yours
- April to November: rain brings less than a quarter of the water a growing garden needs, about 25 mm1 in a week (how we know)
Month by month
- January
- high ~17 °C62 °F · low ~10 °C50 °F · rain ~78 mm3.1 in
- February
- high ~17 °C62 °F · low ~10 °C50 °F · rain ~79 mm3.1 in
- March
- high ~17 °C62 °F · low ~11 °C52 °F · rain ~44 mm1.7 in
- April
- high ~17 °C63 °F · low ~12 °C53 °F · rain ~14 mm0.6 in
- May
- high ~17 °C63 °F · low ~13 °C56 °F · rain ~5.8 mm0.2 in
- June
- high ~19 °C66 °F · low ~15 °C59 °F · rain ~1.3 mm0.05 in
- July
- high ~21 °C69 °F · low ~16 °C62 °F · rain ~0.8 mm0.03 in
- August
- high ~21 °C70 °F · low ~17 °C62 °F · rain ~0.3 mm0.01 in
- September
- high ~21 °C70 °F · low ~16 °C61 °F · rain ~0.8 mm0.03 in
- October
- high ~20 °C67 °F · low ~15 °C58 °F · rain ~12 mm0.5 in
- November
- high ~19 °C67 °F · low ~12 °C54 °F · rain ~21 mm0.8 in
- December
- high ~17 °C63 °F · low ~10 °C49 °F · rain ~52 mm2 in
Where these numbers come from
NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 Climate Normals, the Santa Monica Pier station (listed by NOAA as Santa Monica Pier, USC00047953), at 34.01, -118.50. These are that station’s own records, unshifted. The further your garden is from it, the less exactly they describe your ground. The planner finds the nearest station to your garden and lowers its confidence with distance, so no number is presented as if it were measured in your garden.
Cold air also pools in low ground on the clear, still nights when frost happens, so a hollow can freeze while a slope a few hundred feet away does not. No table can know that about your garden. A few seasons of your own logged frosts can.
ZIP codes nearest this station
90263, 90401, 90402, 90403.
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Nearby stations
The nearest stations and how their last-frost dates compare. Together they show how frost varies across your area.
- Santa Monica Municipal Airport, CA, frost is rare
- Culver City, CA, frost is rare
- U C L A, CA, frost is rare
- Getty Center, CA, frost is rare
- Hawthorne Municipal Airport, CA, frost is rare
- Woodland Hills Pierce College, CA, last frost by January 24
Other stations in California.
- Los Angeles Dwtn Usc Campus, CA, frost is rare
- Burbank Glendale Pasadena Airport, CA, frost is rare
- Torrance Airport, CA, frost is rare
- Long Beach Daugherty Field, CA, frost is rare
- Fullerton Municipal Airport, CA, frost is rare
- Anaheim, CA, frost is rare
- Santa Ana Fire Stn, CA, frost is rare
- Oxnard, CA, frost is rare