Glenolden, PA 19043 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Glenolden, PA, ZIP 19043
Around 04/02 is the usual last spring frost, about 217 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/10, about 224 frost-free days later.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 Glenolden, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7b around Glenolden has about 11 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 Glenolden's last frost
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/19 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/13 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Glenolden compares
At roughly 224 frost-free days, Glenolden places 11,822 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 14 of 2,088.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Glenolden can differ from the 19043 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Glenolden's frost date answer different questions.