Barnstable Town, MA 02648 Frost Dates
Barnstable Town, MA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/26, about 241 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 180 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 8 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
04/26 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
At roughly 180 frost-free days, Barnstable Town places 24,778 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MA, it ranks 246 of 712.
Learn more
Before leaning on 02648's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Barnstable Town's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Barnstable Town can differ from the 02648 normal.