Frost dates for Akron Canton Rgnl Ap, Ohio
Half of years have their last spring frost by April 24 — but 1 year in 10 still frosts after May 11.
Every other site gives you one date. A frost date is not a date: it is a percentile from 30 years of records at a nearby weather station, and planting to the median means losing the crop in half of years. Both numbers are below, so you can choose the risk yourself.
The odds
Last spring frost
- Frost this late in 1 year in 10
- May 11
- 1 year in 5
- May 5
- 3 years in 10
- April 30
- 2 years in 5
- April 27
- Half of years (the median)
- April 24
First fall freeze
- Freeze this early in 1 year in 10
- October 11
- 1 year in 5
- October 16
- 3 years in 10
- October 20
- 2 years in 5
- October 23
- Half of years (the median)
- October 26
- Growing season
- about 184 days
- Hardiness zones nearby
- 6a, 6b
Where these numbers come from
NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 Climate Normals, station Akron Canton Rgnl Ap (USW00014895), at 40.92, -81.43. These are that station's own records, unshifted. The further your garden is from it, the less exactly they describe your ground — the planner resolves the nearest station to your own ZIP and lowers its confidence with distance, rather than presenting one number as if it were measured in your yard.
Cold air also pools in low ground on the clear, still nights when frost happens, so a hollow can freeze while a slope a hundred metres away does not. No table can know that about your garden. Your own logged frosts eventually can.
ZIP codes nearest this station
44203, 44216, 44230, 44250, 44274, 44281, 44301, 44302, 44304, 44306, 44307, 44308, 44311, 44312, 44314, 44319, 44320, 44321, 44601, 44614, 44626, 44632, 44641, 44646, 44647, 44652, 44662, 44666, 44670, 44685, 44688, 44702, 44703, 44704, 44705, 44706, 44707, 44708, 44709, 44710, 44714, 44718, 44720, 44721, 44730.
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Nearby stations
The nearest stations, and how their last-frost dates compare — the frost gradient across your area, which no single station shows.
- Ravenna 2 S, OH — last frost by April 21
- Wooster 3 Sse, OH — last frost by April 24
- Millport 4 Ne Hcn, OH — last frost by May 2
- Dennison Wtr Wks, OH — last frost by April 29
- Cleveland, OH — last frost by April 20
- Cleveland Burke Ap, OH — last frost by April 8
Other stations in Ohio.
- Mosquito Creek Lake, OH — last frost by April 30
- Caldwell 3Se, OH — last frost by April 30
- New Lexington 2 Nw, OH — last frost by April 30
- Fremont Ag Stn, OH — last frost by April 21
- Lancaster Fairfield Ap, OH — last frost by April 26
- Marysville, OH — last frost by April 19
- Hoytville 2 Ne, OH — last frost by April 24
- Carpenter 2 S, OH — last frost by April 27