Framingham, MA 01702 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Framingham, MA, ZIP 01702
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/26, about 241 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/12, about 169 frost-free days later.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Framingham, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Framingham has about 6 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.
The actual range around Framingham's last frost
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/14 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/09 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Framingham compares
At roughly 169 frost-free days, Framingham places 29,296 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MA, it ranks 340 of 712.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Framingham can differ from the 01702 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Framingham's frost date answer different questions.