Lebanon, NH 03766 Frost Dates
03766, near Lebanon, NH: the frost window
Around 05/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 246 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/13, roughly 162 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Lebanon in Zone 5a (-20 to -15°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
Lebanon's growing season runs out in roughly 7 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 Lebanon's last frost
05/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lebanon against the rest of the dataset
Lebanon's growing season runs about 162 days, ranking 31,670 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NH, it ranks 44 of 260.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 03766: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5a and Lebanon's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Lebanon's dates instead of trusting one.