Chesapeake Beach, MD 20732 Frost Dates
Chesapeake Beach, MD: when does the frost end?
Around 04/17 is the usual last spring frost, about 232 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 195 days after the last spring frost.
Chesapeake Beach sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°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
With roughly 9 weeks until Chesapeake Beach's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Chesapeake Beach's last frost
04/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Chesapeake Beach against the rest of the dataset
Chesapeake Beach's growing season runs about 195 days, ranking 19,245 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MD, it ranks 505 of 583.
Learn more
Before leaning on 20732's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Chesapeake Beach can differ from the 20732 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Chesapeake Beach's frost date answer different questions.