Schenectady, NY 12307 Frost Dates
Schenectady, NY: when does the frost end?
Around 04/27 is the usual last spring frost, about 242 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/15, roughly 169 days after the last spring frost.
Schenectady sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Schenectady's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Schenectady's last frost
04/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Schenectady against the rest of the dataset
Schenectady's growing season runs about 169 days, ranking 29,306 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 786 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 12307's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Schenectady can differ from the 12307 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Schenectady's frost date answer different questions.