Framingham, MA 01778 Frost Dates
Framingham, MA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/26, about 241 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/12, roughly 169 days after the last spring frost.
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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 6 weeks until Framingham's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Framingham against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 169 frost-free days, Framingham places 29,301 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MA, it ranks 345 of 712.
Learn more
Before leaning on 01778's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Framingham's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Framingham's dates instead of trusting one.