Akron, OH 44306 Frost Dates
44306, near Akron, OH: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/24, about 239 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 186 days after the last spring frost.
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 Akron, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Akron'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
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Akron against the rest of the dataset
Akron's growing season runs about 186 days, ranking 22,659 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 438 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 44306: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Akron's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Akron's dates instead of trusting one.