Franklin Town, MA 02056 Frost Dates
02056, near Franklin Town, MA: the frost window
Around 04/27 is the usual last spring frost, about 242 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/14, roughly 169 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Franklin Town in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's 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.
The actual range around Franklin Town's last frost
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
About 169 days separate Franklin Town's last and first frost, putting it 29,330 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MA, it ranks 354 of 712.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 02056: local microclimates, on what one yard in Franklin Town can differ from the 02056 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Franklin Town's frost date answer different questions.