Saugerties, NY 12498 Frost Dates
Saugerties, NY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/09, roughly 254 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/04, roughly 147 days after the last spring frost.
Saugerties 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 Saugerties's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Saugerties'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.
Saugerties against the rest of the dataset
About 147 days separate Saugerties's last and first frost, putting it 35,905 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,613 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 12498's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Saugerties's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Saugerties can differ from the 12498 normal.