Kingston, NY 12449 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Kingston, NY, ZIP 12449
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/14, roughly 259 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 09/28, about 134 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 Kingston, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6a around Kingston has about 4 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Kingston's last frost
05/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/30 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 06/01 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Kingston compares
At roughly 134 frost-free days, Kingston places 37,946 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,849 of 1,951.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Kingston can differ from the 12449 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Kingston's frost date answer different questions.