Manlius, NY 13078 Frost Dates
Manlius, NY: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/29, about 244 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 173 days after the last spring frost.
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 Manlius, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Manlius's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Manlius's last frost
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Manlius against the rest of the dataset
About 173 days separate Manlius's last and first frost, putting it 27,879 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 653 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 13078's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Manlius's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Manlius's dates instead of trusting one.