Saugerties, NY 12456 Frost Dates
12456, near Saugerties, NY: the frost window
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.
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 Saugerties, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Saugerties'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Saugerties against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 147 frost-free days, Saugerties places 35,901 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,609 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 12456: local microclimates, on what one yard in Saugerties can differ from the 12456 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Saugerties's frost date answer different questions.