Galway, NY 12850 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Galway, NY, ZIP 12850
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/02, about 247 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/07, about 158 frost-free days later.
Galway 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 5a around Galway has about 6 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Galway's last frost
05/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/21 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/17 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Galway compares
At roughly 158 frost-free days, Galway places 33,163 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,206 of 1,951.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5a and Galway's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Galway's dates instead of trusting one.