Yonkers, NY 10705 Frost Dates
Yonkers, NY: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/01, about 216 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/16, roughly 230 days after the last spring frost.
Yonkers sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 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 11 weeks until Yonkers'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
04/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Yonkers against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 230 frost-free days, Yonkers places 10,293 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 50 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 10705's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Yonkers's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Yonkers can differ from the 10705 normal.