Morningside, MD 20790 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Morningside, MD?
Around 04/09 is the usual last spring frost, about 224 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/29, about 203 frost-free days later.
Morningside sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°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.
What to do before the first frost
About 9 weeks of growing season left in Morningside before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/27 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/24 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Morningside compares
At roughly 203 frost-free days, Morningside places 16,978 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MD, it ranks 406 of 583.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 7b and Morningside's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Morningside's dates instead of trusting one.