New York, NY 11220 Frost Dates
New York, NY: when does the frost end?
Around 04/02 is the usual last spring frost, about 217 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/10, roughly 222 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts New York 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 New York's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around New York's last frost
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
New York against the rest of the dataset
About 222 days separate New York's last and first frost, putting it 12,170 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 190 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 11220's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around New York's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in New York can differ from the 11220 normal.