Barnstable Town, MA 02666 Frost Dates
Barnstable Town, MA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/13, roughly 228 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 206 days after the last spring frost.
Barnstable Town sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°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
With roughly 10 weeks until Barnstable Town's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
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
About 206 days separate Barnstable Town's last and first frost, putting it 15,947 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MA, it ranks 72 of 712.
Learn more
Before leaning on 02666's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Barnstable Town's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Barnstable Town's dates instead of trusting one.