Hamtramck, MI 48234 Frost Dates
Hamtramck, MI: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/21, roughly 236 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 190 days after the last spring frost.
Hamtramck sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Hamtramck's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/07 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hamtramck against the rest of the dataset
About 190 days separate Hamtramck's last and first frost, putting it 21,053 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MI, it ranks 28 of 1,153.
Learn more
Before leaning on 48234's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Hamtramck's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Hamtramck can differ from the 48234 normal.