Frost history / Sacramento Metro Ap, CA
Sacramento Metro Ap, CA: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00093225, 1998 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 23 ft, 38.696, -121.590. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Feb 26 | Nov 24 |
| Earliest | Jan 2 (2016) | Oct 31 (2002) |
| Latest | Apr 9 (1999) | Dec 27 (2014) |
| Trend | 6.4 days earlier per decade | 3.2 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 26 | 27, 2 with no freeze |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Jan 26 and the median first fall date is Dec 7.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Jan 7 | Nov 30 | none | none |
| 2023 | Feb 22 | none | none | none |
| 2022 | Feb 26 | Nov 20 | Feb 24 | none |
| 2021 | Feb 26 | Dec 18 | Jan 26 | none |
| 2020 | Mar 19 | Nov 10 | none | none |
| 2019 | Feb 23 | Nov 29 | none | none |
| 2018 | Mar 18 | Nov 9 | Feb 24 | none |
| 2017 | Feb 24 | Dec 6 | none | Dec 13 |
| 2016 | Jan 2 | Nov 5 | none | Dec 19 |
| 2015 | Jan 13 | Nov 11 | Jan 3 | Nov 28 |
| 2014 | Feb 5 | Dec 27 | Feb 5 | none |
| 2013 | Feb 27 | Dec 4 | Jan 18 | Dec 5 |
| 2012 | Mar 19 | Dec 19 | Jan 17 | none |
| 2011 | Feb 27 | Nov 5 | none | Dec 9 |
| 2010 | Mar 13 | Nov 24 | none | none |
| 2009 | Apr 5 | Nov 16 | Jan 11 | Dec 3 |
| 2008 | Feb 5 | Dec 5 | none | Dec 18 |
| 2007 | Feb 28 | Nov 24 | Jan 25 | Dec 14 |
| 2006 | Mar 11 | Nov 24 | Feb 16 | Dec 7 |
| 2005 | Jan 13 | Nov 27 | none | none |
| 2004 | Jan 23 | Nov 29 | none | Dec 1 |
| 2003 | Feb 26 | Nov 4 | Feb 9 | Nov 23 |
| 2002 | Mar 15 | Oct 31 | Feb 4 | none |
| 2001 | Apr 3 | none | Jan 18 | none |
| 2000 | Jan 9 | Nov 11 | Jan 6 | Nov 12 |
| 1999 | Apr 9 | Nov 24 | Jan 29 | Dec 15 |
| 1998 | no data | Dec 6 | no data | Dec 7 |
"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.