Barnstable Town, MA 02563 Frost Dates
02563, near Barnstable Town, MA: the frost window
Around 04/26 is the usual last spring frost, about 241 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 180 days after the last spring frost.
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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Barnstable Town'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 Barnstable Town's last frost
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Barnstable Town against the rest of the dataset
Barnstable Town's growing season runs about 180 days, ranking 24,775 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MA, it ranks 243 of 712.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 02563: the frost range, on how to read the range around Barnstable Town's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Barnstable Town can differ from the 02563 normal.