New Paltz, NY 12548 Frost Dates
12548, near New Paltz, NY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/21, about 236 days from today. 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
New Paltz's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around New Paltz's last frost
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 21,948 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 422 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 12548: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and New Paltz's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around New Paltz's dates instead of trusting one.