New Paltz, NY 12568 Frost Dates
New Paltz, NY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/29, roughly 244 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/11, roughly 164 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 6 weeks until New Paltz's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around New Paltz's last frost
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/12 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 164 days, ranking 30,887 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 897 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 12568's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around New Paltz's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in New Paltz can differ from the 12568 normal.