Last Frost Day

Frost history / Fremont, CA

Fremont, CA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00043244, 1996 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 38 ft, 37.542, -122.016. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianFeb 1Dec 18
EarliestJan 4 (2004)Nov 24 (2010)
LatestMar 2 (2023)Dec 27 (2019)
Trend9.8 days later per decade0.8 days earlier per decade
Years with data28, 12 with no freeze29, 14 with no freeze

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Jan 10 and the median first fall date is Dec 23.

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)

Dec 16Dec 31Jan 15Jan 30Feb 14Mar 1Mar 162000201020201999: Jan 282002: Jan 302004: Jan 42007: Jan 182009: Jan 42011: Feb 272012: Jan 182013: Feb 92018: Feb 242019: Feb 192020: Feb 32021: Jan 262022: Feb 252023: Mar 22024: Jan 112025: Feb 10

First fall frost (32°F)

Nov 11Nov 26Dec 11Dec 26Jan 102000201020201997: Dec 261998: Dec 72004: Dec 42006: Dec 182007: Dec 222008: Dec 262009: Dec 82010: Nov 242011: Dec 232012: Dec 192013: Dec 42015: Dec 262016: Dec 172019: Dec 272022: Nov 30

Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.

Year by year

YearLast spring 32°FFirst fall 32°FLast spring 28°FFirst fall 28°F
2025Feb 10nonenonenone
2024Jan 11nonenonenone
2023Mar 2nonenonenone
2022Feb 25Nov 30nonenone
2021Jan 26nonenonenone
2020Feb 3nonenonenone
2019Feb 19Dec 27nonenone
2018Feb 24nonenonenone
2017nonenonenonenone
2016noneDec 17nonenone
2015noneDec 26nonenone
2014nonenonenonenone
2013Feb 9Dec 4nonenone
2012Jan 18Dec 19nonenone
2011Feb 27Dec 23nonenone
2010noneNov 24nonenone
2009Jan 4Dec 8Jan 4none
2008noneDec 26nonenone
2007Jan 18Dec 22Jan 16none
2006noneDec 18nonenone
2005nonenonenonenone
2004Jan 4Dec 4nonenone
2003nonenonenonenone
2002Jan 30nonenonenone
2001nonenonenonenone
2000nonenonenonenone
1999Jan 28no datanoneno data
1998noneDec 7noneDec 23
1997no dataDec 26no datanone
1996no datanoneno datanone

"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 1991–2020 frost probabilities.