Last Frost Day

Frost history / Groveland 2, CA

Groveland 2, CA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00043669, 2000 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 2,800 ft, 37.844, -120.226. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 30Oct 29
EarliestMar 27 (2020)Sep 16 (2006)
LatestMay 23 (2013)Nov 26 (2001)
Trend4.4 days earlier per decade2.2 days earlier per decade
Years with data2422

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 7 and the median first fall date is Nov 11.

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)

Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15May 302000201020202001: May 32002: May 12003: May 102004: Apr 182005: May 102006: Apr 192007: May 62008: May 22009: Apr 302010: May 232011: May 162012: Apr 92013: May 232014: Apr 232015: Apr 162016: Mar 312017: Apr 152018: Apr 192019: May 202020: Mar 272021: Apr 272022: May 112023: Apr 202024: May 6

First fall frost (32°F)

Aug 28Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 112000201020202000: Oct 302001: Nov 262002: Nov 12003: Oct 302004: Oct 212005: Nov 52006: Sep 162007: Oct 62008: Oct 112009: Oct 52010: Oct 272011: Nov 52012: Nov 92013: Oct 302016: Nov 172017: Oct 42018: Nov 92019: Oct 12020: Nov 72021: Oct 122022: Oct 232023: Oct 27

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
2024May 6no dataApr 7no data
2023Apr 20Oct 27Apr 20Oct 29
2022May 11Oct 23May 11Nov 10
2021Apr 27Oct 12Mar 24Nov 24
2020Mar 27Nov 7Feb 10Nov 9
2019May 20Oct 1Mar 25Nov 26
2018Apr 19Nov 9Mar 27Nov 11
2017Apr 15Oct 4Apr 9Dec 4
2016Mar 31Nov 17Mar 30Nov 17
2015Apr 16no dataApr 2no data
2014Apr 23no dataFeb 6no data
2013May 23Oct 30Mar 11Dec 4
2012Apr 9Nov 9Apr 7Nov 11
2011May 16Nov 5Apr 15Nov 5
2010May 23Oct 27Apr 7Nov 24
2009Apr 30Oct 5Apr 16Oct 29
2008May 2Oct 11Apr 25Oct 11
2007May 6Oct 6Apr 20Oct 6
2006Apr 19Sep 16Mar 22Nov 11
2005May 10Nov 5Apr 15Nov 27
2004Apr 18Oct 21Feb 28Nov 21
2003May 10Oct 30Apr 5Nov 4
2002May 1Nov 1Apr 19Dec 22
2001May 3Nov 26Apr 11Nov 26
2000no dataOct 30no dataNov 11

"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.