Sylvan Beach, NY 13308 Frost Dates
Sylvan Beach, NY: when does the frost end?
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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Sylvan Beach in Zone 5b (-15 to -10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Sylvan Beach'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
05/06 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 33,392 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,249 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 13308's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Sylvan Beach's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Sylvan Beach's dates instead of trusting one.