Barnstable Town, MA 02655 Frost Dates
02655, near Barnstable Town, MA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/16, roughly 231 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 195 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
Barnstable Town's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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
04/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Barnstable Town against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 195 frost-free days, Barnstable Town places 19,162 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MA, it ranks 129 of 712.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 02655: local microclimates, on what one yard in Barnstable Town can differ from the 02655 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Barnstable Town's frost date answer different questions.