Cleveland, OH 44104 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Cleveland, OH, ZIP 44104
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/08, about 223 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/12, about 217 frost-free days later.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Cleveland has about 11 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/29 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/20 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Cleveland compares
At roughly 217 frost-free days, Cleveland places 13,363 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 2 of 1,383.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Cleveland can differ from the 44104 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Cleveland's frost date answer different questions.