New Munich, MN 56356 Frost Dates
56356, near New Munich, MN: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/04, roughly 249 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/01, roughly 148 days after the last spring frost.
New Munich sits in USDA Zone 4a (-30 to -25°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
New Munich's growing season runs out in roughly 5 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around New Munich's last frost
05/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
New Munich against the rest of the dataset
New Munich's growing season runs about 148 days, ranking 35,791 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MN, it ranks 594 of 943.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 56356: the frost range, on how to read the range around New Munich's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in New Munich can differ from the 56356 normal.