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Randolph Town, MA 02368 Frost Dates

Frost dates for Randolph Town, MA, ZIP 02368

Zone 6b

Around 04/18 is the usual last spring frost, about 233 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/26, about 190 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 Randolph Town, not a forecast for this year.

What to do before the first frost

Zone 6b around Randolph Town has about 8 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.

The actual range around Randolph Town's last frost

04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/07 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/30 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Randolph Town compares

At roughly 190 frost-free days, Randolph Town places 21,044 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MA, it ranks 141 of 712.

Learn more

zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Randolph Town's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Randolph Town's dates instead of trusting one.