Barnstable Town, MA 02601 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Barnstable Town, MA, ZIP 02601
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/16, roughly 231 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/30, about 195 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 9 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
04/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/05 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 Barnstable Town compares
Barnstable Town's growing season runs about 195 days, ranking 19,159 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MA, it ranks 126 of 712.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Barnstable Town's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Barnstable Town's dates instead of trusting one.