New Berlin, NY 13335 Frost Dates
13335, near New Berlin, NY: the frost window
Around 05/13 is the usual last spring frost, about 258 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/04, roughly 145 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts New Berlin 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
New Berlin's growing season runs out in roughly 5 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
05/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
New Berlin against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 145 frost-free days, New Berlin places 36,238 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,676 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 13335: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and New Berlin's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around New Berlin's dates instead of trusting one.