Colonie, NY 12212 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Colonie, NY?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/27, roughly 242 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/15, about 169 frost-free days later.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 Colonie, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 7 weeks of growing season left in Colonie before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Colonie's last frost
04/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/16 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/11 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Colonie compares
At roughly 169 frost-free days, Colonie places 29,396 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 797 of 1,951.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Colonie's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Colonie can differ from the 12212 normal.