Beverly, MA 01931 Frost Dates
01931, 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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Beverly in Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
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.
The actual range around Beverly's last frost
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 32,211 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MA, it ranks 507 of 712.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 01931: the frost range, on how to read the range around Beverly's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Beverly can differ from the 01931 normal.