North Beach, MD 20779 Frost Dates
20779, near North Beach, MD: the frost window
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.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 North Beach, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
North Beach's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
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
About 203 days separate North Beach's last and first frost, putting it 16,937 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MD, it ranks 382 of 583.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 20779: the frost range, on how to read the range around North Beach's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in North Beach can differ from the 20779 normal.