North Adams, MA 01350 Frost Dates
01350, near North Adams, MA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/14, about 259 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/04, roughly 143 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts North Adams in Zone 5b (-15 to -10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
North Adams's growing season runs out in roughly 5 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around North Adams's last frost
05/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/30 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
North Adams against the rest of the dataset
North Adams's growing season runs about 143 days, ranking 36,505 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MA, it ranks 697 of 712.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 01350: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and North Adams's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around North Adams's dates instead of trusting one.