Franklin Town, MA 02053 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Franklin Town, MA?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/30, roughly 245 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/09, about 162 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 Franklin Town, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 6 weeks of growing season left in Franklin Town before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Franklin Town's last frost
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/17 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/14 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Franklin Town compares
At roughly 162 frost-free days, Franklin Town places 31,640 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MA, it ranks 468 of 712.
Learn more
local microclimates covers what one yard in Franklin Town can differ from the 02053 normal. zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 6b and Franklin Town's frost date answer different questions.