New York, NY 11213 Frost Dates
11213, near New York, NY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/30, about 214 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/20, roughly 236 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 New York, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
New York's growing season runs out in roughly 12 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
03/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
New York against the rest of the dataset
New York's growing season runs about 236 days, ranking 9,190 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 31 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 11213: local microclimates, on what one yard in New York can differ from the 11213 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and New York's frost date answer different questions.