Springfield, MA 01108 Frost Dates
Springfield, MA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/03, about 248 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/08, roughly 158 days after the last spring frost.
Springfield sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 6 weeks until Springfield's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Springfield's last frost
05/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Springfield against the rest of the dataset
About 158 days separate Springfield's last and first frost, putting it 32,853 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MA, it ranks 542 of 712.
Learn more
Before leaning on 01108's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Springfield can differ from the 01108 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Springfield's frost date answer different questions.