Last Frost Day

Frost history / San Jacinto, CA

San Jacinto, CA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00047813, 1981 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,525 ft, 33.796, -116.975. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianFeb 25Dec 8
EarliestJan 4 (2015)Nov 3 (1990)
LatestApr 10 (1999)Dec 29 (2018)
Trend10.1 days earlier per decade8.8 days later per decade
Years with data31, 2 with no freeze30, 6 with no freeze

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Jan 17 and the median first fall date is Dec 8.

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 16Mar 31Apr 1519902000201020201981: Feb 271982: Apr 11983: Apr 61984: Feb 271985: Mar 291986: Feb 171987: Feb 281991: Mar 261993: Jan 241994: Feb 141997: Mar 31999: Apr 102000: Mar 62007: Mar 32009: Feb 112010: Feb 232011: Feb 282012: Jan 192013: Feb 262014: Feb 22015: Jan 42016: Feb 22018: Feb 252019: Feb 232020: Feb 52022: Feb 252023: Feb 162024: Jan 92025: Jan 13

First fall frost (32°F)

Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 11Dec 26Jan 1019902000201020201982: Nov 151983: Nov 221984: Nov 211986: Dec 121987: Nov 261990: Nov 31993: Dec 71994: Nov 31997: Dec 91998: Dec 72000: Nov 122001: Nov 272007: Dec 102009: Dec 232010: Nov 252011: Dec 42012: Dec 202013: Dec 92014: Dec 262015: Dec 152016: Dec 182017: Dec 222018: Dec 292021: Dec 16

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
2025Jan 13nonenonenone
2024Jan 9nonenonenone
2023Feb 16nonenonenone
2022Feb 25nonenonenone
2021noneDec 16nonenone
2020Feb 5noneFeb 5none
2019Feb 23nonenonenone
2018Feb 25Dec 29nonenone
2017noneDec 22nonenone
2016Feb 2Dec 18nonenone
2015Jan 4Dec 15Jan 2Dec 16
2014Feb 2Dec 26nonenone
2013Feb 26Dec 9Jan 15Dec 10
2012Jan 19Dec 20noneDec 21
2011Feb 28Dec 4noneDec 4
2010Feb 23Nov 25noneNov 30
2009Feb 11Dec 23Jan 5none
2007Mar 3Dec 10Jan 17none
2001no dataNov 27no dataNov 28
2000Mar 6Nov 12noneDec 17
1999Apr 10no datanoneno data
1998no dataDec 7no dataDec 7
1997Mar 3Dec 9Jan 11Dec 25
1994Feb 14Nov 3Jan 11Nov 19
1993Jan 24Dec 7Jan 4Dec 29
1991Mar 26no dataJan 25no data
1990no dataNov 3no dataNov 26
1987Feb 28Nov 26Jan 21Dec 13
1986Feb 17Dec 12Feb 10none
1985Mar 29no dataMar 5no data
1984Feb 27Nov 21Feb 18Nov 26
1983Apr 6Nov 22Jan 2Nov 27
1982Apr 1Nov 15Jan 22Dec 25
1981Feb 27no datanoneno data

"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.