Granville, NY 05775 Frost Dates
05775, near Granville, NY: the frost window
Around 04/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 245 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/12, roughly 164 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 Granville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Granville's growing season runs out in roughly 6 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Granville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 164 frost-free days, Granville places 30,978 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 914 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 05775: the frost range, on how to read the range around Granville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Granville can differ from the 05775 normal.