Marina del Rey, California, sits in USDA hardiness zone 10b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Among the crops suited to this profile: artichoke, meyer lemon, california poppy, and cabbage. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Marina del Rey, no two yards are alike.
A low spot, a south-facing slope, or a stand of trees moves the frost date and sun across a single Marina del Rey lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Marina del Rey — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Marina del Rey — the short answer
Marina del Rey, California: USDA zone 10b, no 28°F killing freeze on record — the season is year-round, across 549 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 10b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Killing freeze
- None on record
- NOAA RCC ACIS 1991–2020, this town’s own record
- Town area
- 549 acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. The year-round finding is measured — a 30-year record with no 28°F killing freeze in it — never inferred from missing dates.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 10b is Marina del Rey's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Marina del Rey's no killing freeze on record, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Marina del Rey
Each reading below is measured for Marina del Rey itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Winter hardiness
MeasuredMarina del Rey sits in USDA hardiness zone 10b.
The zone sets which perennials, shrubs, and fruit trees live through an average winter here — a plant rated for a colder zone is a safe bet, one rated warmer needs winter protection or gets treated as an annual.
Match perennials and fruit to the zone before you buy, so nothing you plant is a gamble against the cold.
USDA PHZM 2023
The kind of country Marina del Rey is in
Marina del Rey sits in the Southern California/Northern Baja Coast — EPA Level III, inside the wider Mediterranean California. That is read at Marina del Rey's own centroid rather than borrowed from Los Angeles County.
What Grows in Marina del Rey
Every plant below cleared Marina del Rey's own zone 10b. Each card opens that plant's California profile. How we score.
What's on the federal record near Marina del Rey
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Marina del Rey. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- DOLPHIN MARINA APARTMENTSBrownfields · 1000 ft
- DOLPHIN MARINA SLIPSBrownfields · 1000 ft
- MARINERS BAY, LLC., A DELAWARE LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANYBrownfields · 1900 ft
- CC MARINE SERVICE, INC.Brownfields · 2000 ft
- WINDWARD YACHTREPAIR INCBrownfields · 2000 ft
- WAYFARER APARTMENTS BLD 5 #116Brownfields · 2100 ft
- MARINERS BAY, LLC, A DELAWARE LLCBrownfields · 2100 ft
- MARINERS BAY BUILDING 1Brownfields · 2100 ft
- DEL REY FUEL LLC DBA DEL REY LANDINGBrownfields · 2300 ft
- Del Rey LandingUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- LA COUNTY SANITATION DISTRICTS ANGELESBrownfields · 2300 ft
- KIETH APPELBrownfields · 2300 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Marina del Rey's center, not your beds. Run your own address for what's upwind of you specifically.
Environmental Intelligence
The counts behind that headline — every source type on the record near Marina del Rey.
Total Sites
9,340
within ~10 miles of Marina del Rey
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
22 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Marina del Rey
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Marina del Rey
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Marina del Rey, Brownfields runs higher than the national average — 8,463 sites within ~10 miles of Marina del Rey. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Brownfields: Brownfield sites are former commercial or industrial properties where legacy soil contamination (heavy metals, PAHs, petroleum compounds) may persist.
Check EPA brownfield remediation status — many sites have completed cleanup with institutional controls.
Check your specific parcel in Marina del Rey
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Marina del Rey average
Your land is one point inside Marina del Rey
Everything above resolves to Marina del Rey as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 549 acres. Your parcel is one point inside that footprint. Slope, tree cover, a low spot that pools cold air, and what is in the soil are all resolved at the address, and none of them are visible at town scale. That is the honest boundary of this page, and the reason the next step is a reading of your own ground rather than a better local average.
Your Lot vs the Marina del Rey Average
Marina del Rey Average
- ●USDA Zones 10b, averaged across Marina del Rey
- ●One soil character for all of Marina del Rey
- ●State-average frost dates
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Marina del Rey's 10b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
See MY Growing Report
Read your specific parcel in Marina del Rey
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Marina del Rey, California — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Marina del Rey averages can't show:
We read public map data around Marina del Rey — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Marina del Rey average
How we know this about Marina del Rey
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this town’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals, with the labelled statewide window where none resolves; boundaries and acreage from US Census TIGER/Line 2025; the contamination records from the federal sources named in their beats above. Soil is not read at town grain anywhere on this page — there is no town-resolution survey in our data, which is why you will find no soil grid here rather than a statewide one wearing a local label. The resolution ledger below names every figure this page inherited.
Common questions about Marina del Rey
Is it too late to plant in Marina del Rey?
No — Marina del Rey has no 28°F killing freeze in the 30-year station record, so the growing season is year-round and there is no last-frost date to wait for. Planting is paced by rainfall, heat and daylength instead of by frost: start heat-lovers any month, and time cool-season crops (lettuce, brassicas, peas) for the cooler, wetter half of the year or for higher ground. Succession sowing every few weeks works all year, so the limit is what you can keep watered and harvested, not the calendar.
When does frost risk typically end in Marina del Rey?
It doesn't — Marina del Rey records no 28°F killing freeze at all across the 1991–2020 station record, so there is no spring frost date to plant after. Cold still matters with elevation: the higher you garden, the cooler the nights, and a few tropical crops sulk below about 60°F even where they never freeze.
How long is the growing season in Marina del Rey?
Year-round — the 1991–2020 station record for Marina del Rey contains no 28°F killing freeze, so there is no season to measure between freezes. What paces planting instead is heat, rainfall and daylength: the hottest, wettest stretch is the hard part for cool-season crops, not winter. Elevation is the one real exception — the higher you garden, the colder the nights get.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Marina del Rey?
The federal record around Marina del Rey is a meaningful one — 9,340 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (8,463), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.2 miles out — so a soil test before new food beds is a sensible precaution here, not a reason to hold back from growing. Remember that proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what sits where.
Everything above is measured at Marina del Rey's scale — its 10b band and its no killing freeze on record. Your yard writes its own version of Marina del Rey's numbers: we read soil, sun, drainage and frost at your exact address. Try it for 14 days — no card required.
What this page reads at Marina del Rey’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Marina del Rey's own scale — the 549 acres it covers and 9,340 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Marina del Rey's own USDA hardiness band, zones 10bUSDA PHZM 2023
- No 28°F killing freeze in the 30-year station record covering Marina del Rey — a year-round growing seasonNOAA Regional Climate Centers ACIS, 1991-2020
- 9,340 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Marina del Rey, the closest Brownfields record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Marina del Rey's boundary and the 549 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear Marina del Rey's hardiness zoneGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Marina del Rey's own centroid, the Southern California/Northern Baja CoastUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Marina del Rey's 549 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Los Angeles County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Los Angeles County
- The growing challenges every California grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom California
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Los Angeles County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Marina del Rey's 549 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Marina del Rey you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 549 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 0.2 miles out, measured from the town centrehow we read the record →
- Where cold air settles, which slopes face the sun, and which way the wind runs on your own ground — measured at your address, and averaged away by any Marina del Rey-wide figureread your own land →