Westhampton Beach, NY 11978 Frost Dates
11978, near Westhampton Beach, NY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/07, about 252 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/14, roughly 160 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Westhampton Beach in Zone 7a (0 to 5°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
Westhampton Beach's growing season runs out in roughly 7 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 Westhampton Beach's last frost
05/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Westhampton Beach against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 160 frost-free days, Westhampton Beach places 32,380 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,112 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 11978: local microclimates, on what one yard in Westhampton Beach can differ from the 11978 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Westhampton Beach's frost date answer different questions.