Kingston, NY 12433 Frost Dates
Kingston, NY: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/09, about 254 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/04, roughly 147 days after the last spring frost.
Kingston 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 5 weeks until Kingston's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Kingston's last frost
05/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/26 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.
Kingston against the rest of the dataset
Kingston's growing season runs about 147 days, ranking 35,858 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 1,606 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 12433's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Kingston's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Kingston can differ from the 12433 normal.