Berlin, NH 04016 Frost Dates
Berlin, NH: when does the frost end?
Around 05/05 is the usual last spring frost, about 250 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/05, roughly 151 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 5a (-20 to -15°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 Berlin, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 5 weeks until Berlin's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 05/05 isn't a guarantee
05/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Berlin against the rest of the dataset
About 151 days separate Berlin's last and first frost, putting it 34,971 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NH, it ranks 118 of 260.
Learn more
Before leaning on 04016's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Berlin's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Berlin can differ from the 04016 normal.