New Paltz, NY 12515 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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts New Paltz in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's 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
About 188 days separate New Paltz's last and first frost, putting it 21,946 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 420 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 12515's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and New Paltz's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around New Paltz's dates instead of trusting one.