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 frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Feb 25 | Dec 8 |
| Earliest | Jan 4 (2015) | Nov 3 (1990) |
| Latest | Apr 10 (1999) | Dec 29 (2018) |
| Trend | 10.1 days earlier per decade | 8.8 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 31, 2 with no freeze | 30, 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)
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 13 | none | none | none |
| 2024 | Jan 9 | none | none | none |
| 2023 | Feb 16 | none | none | none |
| 2022 | Feb 25 | none | none | none |
| 2021 | none | Dec 16 | none | none |
| 2020 | Feb 5 | none | Feb 5 | none |
| 2019 | Feb 23 | none | none | none |
| 2018 | Feb 25 | Dec 29 | none | none |
| 2017 | none | Dec 22 | none | none |
| 2016 | Feb 2 | Dec 18 | none | none |
| 2015 | Jan 4 | Dec 15 | Jan 2 | Dec 16 |
| 2014 | Feb 2 | Dec 26 | none | none |
| 2013 | Feb 26 | Dec 9 | Jan 15 | Dec 10 |
| 2012 | Jan 19 | Dec 20 | none | Dec 21 |
| 2011 | Feb 28 | Dec 4 | none | Dec 4 |
| 2010 | Feb 23 | Nov 25 | none | Nov 30 |
| 2009 | Feb 11 | Dec 23 | Jan 5 | none |
| 2007 | Mar 3 | Dec 10 | Jan 17 | none |
| 2001 | no data | Nov 27 | no data | Nov 28 |
| 2000 | Mar 6 | Nov 12 | none | Dec 17 |
| 1999 | Apr 10 | no data | none | no data |
| 1998 | no data | Dec 7 | no data | Dec 7 |
| 1997 | Mar 3 | Dec 9 | Jan 11 | Dec 25 |
| 1994 | Feb 14 | Nov 3 | Jan 11 | Nov 19 |
| 1993 | Jan 24 | Dec 7 | Jan 4 | Dec 29 |
| 1991 | Mar 26 | no data | Jan 25 | no data |
| 1990 | no data | Nov 3 | no data | Nov 26 |
| 1987 | Feb 28 | Nov 26 | Jan 21 | Dec 13 |
| 1986 | Feb 17 | Dec 12 | Feb 10 | none |
| 1985 | Mar 29 | no data | Mar 5 | no data |
| 1984 | Feb 27 | Nov 21 | Feb 18 | Nov 26 |
| 1983 | Apr 6 | Nov 22 | Jan 2 | Nov 27 |
| 1982 | Apr 1 | Nov 15 | Jan 22 | Dec 25 |
| 1981 | Feb 27 | no data | none | no 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.