Stonington, CT 02883 Frost Dates
Stonington, CT: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/11, about 226 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 201 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Stonington, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Stonington's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Stonington's last frost
04/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 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.
Stonington against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 201 frost-free days, Stonington places 17,590 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CT, it ranks 39 of 391.
Learn more
Before leaning on 02883's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Stonington can differ from the 02883 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Stonington's frost date answer different questions.