Beverly, MA 01885 Frost Dates
01885, near Beverly, MA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/04, roughly 249 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/12, roughly 160 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 Beverly, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Beverly's growing season runs out in roughly 6 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 05/04 isn't a guarantee
05/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Beverly against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 160 frost-free days, Beverly places 32,208 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MA, it ranks 504 of 712.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 01885: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Beverly's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Beverly's dates instead of trusting one.