Albany, MN 56307 Frost Dates
Albany, MN: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/03, about 248 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/07, roughly 155 days after the last spring frost.
Albany sits in USDA Zone 4b (-25 to -20°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 Albany's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Albany's last frost
05/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Albany against the rest of the dataset
Albany's growing season runs about 155 days, ranking 33,984 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MN, it ranks 351 of 943.
Learn more
Before leaning on 56307's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 4b and Albany's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Albany's dates instead of trusting one.