Binghamton, NY 13748 Frost Dates
13748, near Binghamton, NY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/02, about 247 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/11, roughly 162 days after the last spring frost.
Binghamton 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Binghamton's growing season runs out in roughly 6 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
05/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Binghamton against the rest of the dataset
About 162 days separate Binghamton's last and first frost, putting it 31,604 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,004 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 13748: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Binghamton's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Binghamton's dates instead of trusting one.