East Syracuse, NY 13206 Frost Dates
When can you plant in East 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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts East Syracuse in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
About 7 weeks of growing season left in East Syracuse before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around East 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 East Syracuse compares
At roughly 173 frost-free days, East Syracuse places 27,913 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 659 of 1,951.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 6a and East Syracuse's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around East Syracuse's dates instead of trusting one.