Whitehall, NY 12841 Frost Dates
Whitehall, NY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/30, roughly 245 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/12, roughly 164 days after the last spring frost.
Whitehall sits in USDA Zone 5a (-20 to -15°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 Whitehall's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Whitehall's last frost
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 30,971 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 907 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 12841's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Whitehall's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Whitehall can differ from the 12841 normal.