Randolph Town, MA 02457 Frost Dates
Randolph Town, MA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/18, about 233 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 190 days after the last spring frost.
Randolph Town sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Randolph Town's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Randolph Town against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 190 frost-free days, Randolph Town places 21,046 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MA, it ranks 143 of 712.
Learn more
Before leaning on 02457's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Randolph Town's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Randolph Town can differ from the 02457 normal.