Haverhill, MA 01833 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Haverhill, MA?
Around 05/03 is the usual last spring frost, about 248 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/08, about 158 frost-free days later.
Haverhill 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.
What to do before the first frost
About 6 weeks of growing season left in Haverhill before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Haverhill's last frost
05/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/22 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/17 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Haverhill compares
At roughly 158 frost-free days, Haverhill places 32,867 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MA, it ranks 553 of 712.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Haverhill's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Haverhill can differ from the 01833 normal.