Quincy, MA 02136 Frost Dates
Quincy, MA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/18, roughly 233 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 190 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Quincy 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
With roughly 8 weeks until Quincy's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Quincy's last frost
04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/07 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Quincy against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 190 frost-free days, Quincy places 20,976 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MA, it ranks 132 of 712.
Learn more
Before leaning on 02136's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Quincy's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Quincy's dates instead of trusting one.