Gloversville, NY 12032 Frost Dates
12032, near Gloversville, NY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/11, about 256 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/03, roughly 143 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 4b (-25 to -20°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 Gloversville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Gloversville'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 Gloversville'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.
Gloversville against the rest of the dataset
About 143 days separate Gloversville's last and first frost, putting it 36,500 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,733 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 12032: local microclimates, on what one yard in Gloversville can differ from the 12032 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 4b and Gloversville's frost date answer different questions.