Newburyport, MA 01952 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Newburyport, 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.
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 Newburyport, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 6 weeks of growing season left in Newburyport before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Newburyport'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 Newburyport compares
At roughly 158 frost-free days, Newburyport places 32,926 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MA, it ranks 582 of 712.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Newburyport's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Newburyport can differ from the 01952 normal.