Barnstable Town, MA 02651 Frost Dates
02651, near Barnstable Town, MA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/13, about 228 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 206 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Barnstable Town, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Barnstable Town's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/26 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 206 days, ranking 15,940 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MA, it ranks 65 of 712.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 02651: local microclimates, on what one yard in Barnstable Town can differ from the 02651 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Barnstable Town's frost date answer different questions.