Barnstable Town, MA 02536 Frost Dates
Barnstable Town, MA: when does the frost end?
Around 04/11 is the usual last spring frost, about 226 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/11, roughly 213 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Barnstable Town 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
With roughly 11 weeks until Barnstable Town's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Barnstable Town's last frost
04/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Barnstable Town against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 213 frost-free days, Barnstable Town places 14,436 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MA, it ranks 46 of 712.
Learn more
Before leaning on 02536's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Barnstable Town can differ from the 02536 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Barnstable Town's frost date answer different questions.