Middletown, NY 10940 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Middletown, NY?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/21, about 236 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/22, about 182 frost-free days later.
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 Middletown, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 8 weeks of growing season left in Middletown before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/09 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/05 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Middletown compares
At roughly 182 frost-free days, Middletown places 24,078 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 509 of 1,951.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Middletown's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Middletown can differ from the 10940 normal.