Barnstable Town, MA 02542 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Barnstable Town, MA, ZIP 02542
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/26, about 241 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/26, about 180 frost-free days later.
Barnstable Town sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7a around Barnstable 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 Barnstable Town's last frost
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/15 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/09 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Barnstable Town compares
At roughly 180 frost-free days, Barnstable Town places 24,772 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MA, it ranks 240 of 712.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Barnstable Town's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Barnstable Town can differ from the 02542 normal.