Beverly, MA 01944 Frost Dates
01944, 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.
Beverly sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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.
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 32,214 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MA, it ranks 510 of 712.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 01944: local microclimates, on what one yard in Beverly can differ from the 01944 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Beverly's frost date answer different questions.