Everett, MA 02129 Frost Dates
02129, near Everett, MA: the frost window
Around 04/04 is the usual last spring frost, about 219 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/09, roughly 218 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Everett in Zone 7a (0 to 5°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
Everett's growing season runs out in roughly 10 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 Everett's last frost
04/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Everett against the rest of the dataset
About 218 days separate Everett's last and first frost, putting it 13,187 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MA, it ranks 22 of 712.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 02129: local microclimates, on what one yard in Everett can differ from the 02129 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Everett's frost date answer different questions.