New Paltz, NY 12472 Frost Dates
New Paltz, NY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/21, roughly 236 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 188 days after the last spring frost.
New Paltz sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 9 weeks until New Paltz's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
New Paltz against the rest of the dataset
New Paltz's growing season runs about 188 days, ranking 21,943 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 417 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 12472's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in New Paltz can differ from the 12472 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and New Paltz's frost date answer different questions.