Interlaken, NY 13081 Frost Dates
Interlaken, NY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/10, roughly 255 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/08, roughly 150 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 Interlaken, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 6 weeks until Interlaken'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
05/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Interlaken against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 150 frost-free days, Interlaken places 35,366 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,587 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 13081's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Interlaken can differ from the 13081 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Interlaken's frost date answer different questions.