North Adams, MA 05352 Frost Dates
North Adams, MA: when does the frost end?
Around 05/10 is the usual last spring frost, about 255 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/04, roughly 147 days after the last spring frost.
North Adams sits in USDA Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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
With roughly 5 weeks until North Adams's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around North Adams's last frost
05/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
North Adams against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 147 frost-free days, North Adams places 35,867 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MA, it ranks 684 of 712.
Learn more
Before leaning on 05352's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around North Adams's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in North Adams can differ from the 05352 normal.