Atlantic Beach, NY 11693 Frost Dates
11693, near Atlantic Beach, NY: the frost window
Around 04/02 is the usual last spring frost, about 217 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/14, roughly 226 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Atlantic Beach 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
Atlantic Beach's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Atlantic Beach'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 04/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Atlantic Beach against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 226 frost-free days, Atlantic Beach places 11,220 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 120 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 11693: the frost range, on how to read the range around Atlantic Beach's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Atlantic Beach can differ from the 11693 normal.