Beverly, MA 01961 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Beverly, MA, ZIP 01961
Around 05/04 is the usual last spring frost, about 249 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/12, about 160 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 Beverly, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Beverly has about 6 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Beverly's last frost
05/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/24 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 Beverly compares
At roughly 160 frost-free days, Beverly places 32,215 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MA, it ranks 511 of 712.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Beverly can differ from the 01961 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Beverly's frost date answer different questions.