Taunton, MA 02767 Frost Dates
Taunton, MA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/22, about 237 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 179 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Taunton in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
With roughly 7 weeks until Taunton's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Taunton's last frost
04/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Taunton against the rest of the dataset
About 179 days separate Taunton's last and first frost, putting it 25,148 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MA, it ranks 250 of 712.
Learn more
Before leaning on 02767's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Taunton's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Taunton can differ from the 02767 normal.