Taunton, MA 02347 Frost Dates
02347, near Taunton, MA: the frost window
Around 04/23 is the usual last spring frost, about 238 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 180 days after the last spring frost.
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 Taunton, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Taunton's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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 Taunton's last frost
04/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Taunton against the rest of the dataset
Taunton's growing season runs about 180 days, ranking 24,770 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MA, it ranks 238 of 712.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 02347: the frost range, on how to read the range around Taunton's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Taunton can differ from the 02347 normal.