Franklin Town, MA 02052 Frost Dates
02052, near Franklin Town, MA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/27, about 242 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/14, roughly 169 days after the last spring frost.
Franklin Town sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
Franklin Town's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Franklin Town against the rest of the dataset
Franklin Town's growing season runs about 169 days, ranking 29,329 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MA, it ranks 353 of 712.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 02052: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Franklin Town's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Franklin Town's dates instead of trusting one.