Barnstable Town, MA 02660 Frost Dates
02660, 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 11/03, roughly 204 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 10 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
04/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/02 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
At roughly 204 frost-free days, Barnstable Town places 16,496 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MA, it ranks 78 of 712.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 02660: local microclimates, on what one yard in Barnstable Town can differ from the 02660 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Barnstable Town's frost date answer different questions.