Broadalbin, NY 12025 Frost Dates
12025, near Broadalbin, NY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/11, roughly 256 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/03, roughly 143 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 5a (-20 to -15°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 Broadalbin, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Broadalbin's growing season runs out in roughly 5 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 Broadalbin's last frost
05/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/30 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Broadalbin against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 143 frost-free days, Broadalbin places 36,557 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,739 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 12025: local microclimates, on what one yard in Broadalbin can differ from the 12025 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5a and Broadalbin's frost date answer different questions.