Last Frost Day

Frost history / Yosemite Village 12 W, CA

Yosemite Village 12 W, CA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00053150, 2008 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 6,620 ft, 37.759, -119.821. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 22Oct 22
EarliestApr 30 (2018)Sep 28 (2019)
LatestJun 12 (2017)Nov 21 (2018)
Trend14.9 days earlier per decade12.8 days later per decade
Years with data1717

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is May 2 and the median first fall date is Nov 6.

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)

Apr 15Apr 30May 15May 30Jun 14Jun 29201020202008: May 262009: Jun 52010: May 282011: Jun 62012: Jun 52013: May 232014: May 202015: May 152016: May 222017: Jun 122018: Apr 302019: May 272020: May 192021: May 222022: May 112023: May 72024: May 6

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26201020202008: Oct 102009: Oct 32010: Oct 252011: Oct 52012: Oct 222013: Oct 102014: Oct 312015: Nov 22016: Oct 32017: Oct 202018: Nov 212019: Sep 282020: Nov 62021: Oct 82022: Oct 222023: Nov 192024: Oct 28

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 6Oct 28May 5Nov 11
2023May 7Nov 19May 2Nov 19
2022May 11Oct 22May 11Nov 1
2021May 22Oct 8May 21Oct 11
2020May 19Nov 6Apr 10Nov 6
2019May 27Sep 28May 27Nov 25
2018Apr 30Nov 21Apr 19Nov 30
2017Jun 12Oct 20Apr 14Nov 27
2016May 22Oct 3Apr 25Nov 16
2015May 15Nov 2May 8Nov 3
2014May 20Oct 31Apr 26Dec 12
2013May 23Oct 10Apr 17Oct 28
2012Jun 5Oct 22Jun 5Oct 22
2011Jun 6Oct 5May 29Oct 6
2010May 28Oct 25May 28Nov 8
2009Jun 5Oct 3Apr 25Oct 4
2008May 26Oct 10Apr 21Oct 10

"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.