Barnstable Town, MA 02668 Frost Dates
02668, near Barnstable Town, MA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/16, about 231 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 195 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 9 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
04/16 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 19,163 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MA, it ranks 130 of 712.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 02668: local microclimates, on what one yard in Barnstable Town can differ from the 02668 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Barnstable Town's frost date answer different questions.