Great Neck, NY 11023 Frost Dates
Great Neck, NY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/01, roughly 216 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/16, roughly 230 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Great Neck in Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Great Neck's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Great Neck's last frost
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.
Great Neck against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 230 frost-free days, Great Neck places 10,356 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 58 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 11023's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Great Neck's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Great Neck can differ from the 11023 normal.