Rhinebeck, NY 12572 Frost Dates
Rhinebeck, NY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/14, roughly 259 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/28, roughly 134 days after the last spring frost.
Rhinebeck 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 4 weeks until Rhinebeck'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
05/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/30 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Rhinebeck against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 134 frost-free days, Rhinebeck places 37,968 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,857 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 12572's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Rhinebeck's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Rhinebeck's dates instead of trusting one.