Cold Spring, NY 10579 Frost Dates
Cold Spring, NY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/30, roughly 245 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 172 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Cold Spring, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Cold Spring's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
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 04/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cold Spring against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 172 frost-free days, Cold Spring places 28,345 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 718 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 10579's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Cold Spring's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Cold Spring can differ from the 10579 normal.