Whitehall, NY 12836 Frost Dates
12836, near Whitehall, NY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/30, about 245 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/12, roughly 164 days after the last spring frost.
Whitehall sits in USDA Zone 4b (-25 to -20°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
Whitehall'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
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Whitehall against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 164 frost-free days, Whitehall places 30,970 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 906 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 12836: local microclimates, on what one yard in Whitehall can differ from the 12836 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 4b and Whitehall's frost date answer different questions.