Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 Frost Dates
Saratoga Springs, NY: when does the frost end?
Around 05/02 is the usual last spring frost, about 247 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/07, roughly 158 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Saratoga Springs in Zone 5b (-15 to -10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 6 weeks until Saratoga Springs's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Saratoga Springs against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 158 frost-free days, Saratoga Springs places 32,914 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,145 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 12866's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Saratoga Springs's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Saratoga Springs can differ from the 12866 normal.