Peabody, MA 01983 Frost Dates
Peabody, MA: when does the frost end?
Around 04/24 is the usual last spring frost, about 239 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 177 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 Peabody, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Peabody's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Peabody's last frost
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Peabody against the rest of the dataset
Peabody's growing season runs about 177 days, ranking 25,997 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MA, it ranks 279 of 712.
Learn more
Before leaning on 01983's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Peabody can differ from the 01983 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Peabody's frost date answer different questions.