Takoma Park, MD 20912 Frost Dates
Takoma Park, MD: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/10, about 225 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 202 days after the last spring frost.
Takoma Park 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Takoma Park's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Takoma Park's last frost
04/10 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 05/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Takoma Park against the rest of the dataset
Takoma Park's growing season runs about 202 days, ranking 17,158 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MD, it ranks 423 of 583.
Learn more
Before leaning on 20912's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Takoma Park's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Takoma Park can differ from the 20912 normal.