Kingston, PA 18764 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Kingston, PA, ZIP 18764
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/23, about 238 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/20, about 178 frost-free days later.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Kingston, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Kingston has about 8 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Kingston's last frost
04/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/09 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/10 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Kingston compares
About 178 days separate Kingston's last and first frost, putting it 25,636 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 887 of 2,088.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Kingston's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Kingston can differ from the 18764 normal.