Worcester, MA 01610 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Worcester, MA, ZIP 01610
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/23, roughly 238 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/21, about 181 frost-free days later.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Worcester, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6a around Worcester has about 8 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
Why 04/23 isn't a guarantee
04/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/11 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/05 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Worcester compares
At roughly 181 frost-free days, Worcester places 24,401 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MA, it ranks 226 of 712.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Worcester's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Worcester's dates instead of trusting one.