Syracuse, NY 13202 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Syracuse, NY?
Around 04/29 is the usual last spring frost, about 244 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/19, about 173 frost-free days later.
Syracuse sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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.
What to do before the first frost
About 7 weeks of growing season left in Syracuse before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Syracuse's last frost
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/16 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/13 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Syracuse compares
At roughly 173 frost-free days, Syracuse places 27,672 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 619 of 1,951.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 6a and Syracuse's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Syracuse's dates instead of trusting one.