Golden Valley, MN 55427 Frost Dates
Golden Valley, MN: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/29, about 244 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/12, roughly 163 days after the last spring frost.
Golden Valley sits in USDA Zone 5a (-20 to -15°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 6 weeks until Golden Valley'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
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Golden Valley against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 163 frost-free days, Golden Valley places 31,332 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MN, it ranks 153 of 943.
Learn more
Before leaning on 55427's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5a and Golden Valley's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Golden Valley's dates instead of trusting one.