Frost history / Bakersfield 5 Nw, CA
Bakersfield 5 Nw, CA: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00040444, 1999 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 470 ft, 35.419, -119.051. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Feb 10 | Dec 12 |
| Earliest | Jan 4 (2015) | Nov 23 (1999) |
| Latest | Apr 11 (1999) | Dec 28 (2019) |
| Trend | 3.5 days earlier per decade | 6.9 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 18, 3 with no freeze | 16, 4 with no freeze |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Jan 20 and the median first fall date is Dec 19.
The trend is a straight-line fit through the years with a freeze. A positive spring trend means the last frost now comes later. Short or patchy records give noisy trends.
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Last spring frost (32°F)
First fall frost (32°F)
Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.
Year by year
| Year | Last spring 32°F | First fall 32°F | Last spring 28°F | First fall 28°F |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Jan 30 | none | Jan 22 | none |
| 2024 | none | none | none | none |
| 2023 | Feb 19 | none | none | none |
| 2021 | none | none | none | none |
| 2020 | Feb 6 | Nov 29 | Feb 5 | Dec 25 |
| 2019 | Feb 23 | Dec 28 | none | none |
| 2018 | Feb 26 | Dec 28 | none | none |
| 2017 | Feb 24 | Dec 5 | none | Dec 22 |
| 2016 | Feb 3 | Dec 18 | Jan 1 | none |
| 2015 | Jan 4 | Nov 29 | none | Dec 27 |
| 2014 | none | Dec 27 | none | none |
| 2013 | Jan 20 | Dec 5 | Jan 15 | Dec 6 |
| 2012 | no data | Dec 18 | no data | Dec 19 |
| 2005 | Feb 3 | no data | none | no data |
| 2004 | Feb 11 | Nov 28 | none | Nov 29 |
| 2003 | Feb 10 | no data | Feb 9 | no data |
| 2002 | no data | Dec 19 | no data | none |
| 2001 | Feb 15 | no data | Jan 18 | no data |
| 2000 | Jan 9 | no data | Jan 9 | no data |
| 1999 | Apr 11 | Nov 23 | Jan 24 | Dec 4 |
"none" means the station recorded no freeze at that threshold in that half of the year. "no data" means more than 10% of the season's daily readings were missing. Years with no usable data are left out. See the methodology for the rules, and the ZIP lookup for 1991 to 2020 frost probabilities.