Tully, NY 13020 Frost Dates
Tully, NY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/06, roughly 251 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/09, roughly 156 days after the last spring frost.
Tully sits in USDA Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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 Tully's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Tully's last frost
05/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Tully against the rest of the dataset
Tully's growing season runs about 156 days, ranking 33,738 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 1,332 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 13020's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Tully can differ from the 13020 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Tully's frost date answer different questions.