Jenkintown, PA 19001 Frost Dates
Jenkintown, PA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/11, roughly 226 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 205 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Jenkintown in Zone 7b (5 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 9 weeks until Jenkintown's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Jenkintown's last frost
04/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/29 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/27 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Jenkintown against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 205 frost-free days, Jenkintown places 16,241 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 146 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 19001's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Jenkintown's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Jenkintown can differ from the 19001 normal.