Cambridge, NY 12873 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Cambridge, NY?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/13, about 258 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 09/29, about 137 frost-free days later.
Zone 5b (-15 to -10°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Cambridge, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 5 weeks of growing season left in Cambridge before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Cambridge's last frost
05/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/30 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/28 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Cambridge compares
At roughly 137 frost-free days, Cambridge places 37,519 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,805 of 1,951.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Cambridge's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Cambridge can differ from the 12873 normal.