Sylvan Beach, NY 13157 Frost Dates
13157, near Sylvan Beach, NY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/06, roughly 251 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/13, roughly 157 days after the last spring frost.
Sylvan Beach 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
Sylvan Beach's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Sylvan Beach against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 157 frost-free days, Sylvan Beach places 33,390 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,247 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 13157: the frost range, on how to read the range around Sylvan Beach's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Sylvan Beach can differ from the 13157 normal.