North Beach, MD 20751 Frost Dates
North Beach, MD: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/09, roughly 224 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/29, roughly 203 days after the last spring frost.
North 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 North Beach's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
North Beach against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 203 frost-free days, North Beach places 16,935 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MD, it ranks 380 of 583.
Learn more
Before leaning on 20751's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in North Beach can differ from the 20751 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and North Beach's frost date answer different questions.