Frost dates for Glens Falls Farm, New York
Half of years have their last spring frost by May 17 — but 1 year in 10 still frosts after May 31.
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 31
- 1 year in 5
- May 26
- 3 years in 10
- May 23
- 2 years in 5
- May 20
- Half of years (the median)
- May 17
First fall freeze
- Freeze this early in 1 year in 10
- September 17
- 1 year in 5
- September 21
- 3 years in 10
- September 24
- 2 years in 5
- September 26
- Half of years (the median)
- September 29
- Growing season
- about 135 days
- Hardiness zones nearby
- 4b, 5a, 5b
Where these numbers come from
NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 Climate Normals, station Glens Falls Farm (USC00303284), at 43.32, -73.68. 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
12801, 12803, 12804, 12809, 12810, 12814, 12815, 12817, 12819, 12821, 12822, 12824, 12827, 12828, 12831, 12832, 12833, 12834, 12835, 12836, 12838, 12839, 12841, 12844, 12845, 12846, 12849, 12850, 12859, 12863, 12866, 12871, 12874, 12878, 12884, 12885, 12887.
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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.
- Peru, VT — last frost by May 16
- Albany Ap Hcn, NY — last frost by April 27
- Delanson 2Ne, NY — last frost by May 7
- Rowe 3Ne, MA — last frost by May 14
- Cherry Valley 2 Nne, NY — last frost by May 6
- Lenox Dale, MA — last frost by May 7
Other stations in New York.
- Trenton Falls, NY — last frost by May 4
- Hudson Correctional Facility, NY — last frost by April 25
- E Jewett, NY — last frost by May 20
- Delhi 2 Se, NY — last frost by May 19
- E Sidney, NY — last frost by May 11
- Millbrook 3 W, NY — last frost by May 4
- Morrisville 6 Sw Hcn, NY — last frost by May 6
- Mohonk Lake Hcn, NY — last frost by April 21