Monticello, NY 12762 Frost Dates
12762, near Monticello, NY: the frost window
Around 05/07 is the usual last spring frost, about 252 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/07, roughly 152 days after the last spring frost.
Monticello 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
Monticello's growing season runs out in roughly 6 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Monticello against the rest of the dataset
About 152 days separate Monticello's last and first frost, putting it 34,734 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,465 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 12762: local microclimates, on what one yard in Monticello can differ from the 12762 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Monticello's frost date answer different questions.