Monticello, NY 12786 Frost Dates
Monticello, NY: when does the frost end?
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
With roughly 6 weeks until Monticello's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Monticello's last frost
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
Monticello's growing season runs about 152 days, ranking 34,738 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 1,469 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 12786's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Monticello can differ from the 12786 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Monticello's frost date answer different questions.