Syracuse, NY 13205 Frost Dates
13205, near Syracuse, NY: the frost window
Around 04/29 is the usual last spring frost, about 244 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 173 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 Syracuse, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Syracuse'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
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.
Syracuse against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 173 frost-free days, Syracuse places 27,675 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 622 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 13205: the frost range, on how to read the range around Syracuse's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Syracuse can differ from the 13205 normal.