Cleveland, OH 44103 Frost Dates
44103, near Cleveland, OH: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/08, roughly 223 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 217 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Cleveland, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Cleveland's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Cleveland's last frost
04/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/29 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cleveland against the rest of the dataset
Cleveland's growing season runs about 217 days, ranking 13,362 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 1 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 44103: local microclimates, on what one yard in Cleveland can differ from the 44103 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Cleveland's frost date answer different questions.