Frost dates for Painter 2 W, Virginia
Half of years have their last spring frost by April 4, but 1 year in 10 still frosts after April 19.
A frost date is really a percentile from 30 years of records at a nearby weather station: in about half of years a frost still comes after the median date. Both numbers are below, so you can choose the risk yourself.
The odds
Last spring frost
How often a frost still comes on or after each date.
- 1 year in 10
- April 19
- 1 year in 5
- April 14
- 3 years in 10
- April 10
- 2 years in 5
- April 7
- Half of years (the median)
- April 4
First fall freeze
How often the first freeze comes on or before each date.
- 1 year in 10
- October 26
- 1 year in 5
- October 30
- 3 years in 10
- November 2
- 2 years in 5
- November 4
- Half of years (the median)
- November 7
- Growing season
- about 216 days
- Hardiness zone nearby
- 8a
- Summer days
- a usual high of about 30 °C85 °F
- Lettuce and spinach run to seed
- May to September, in hot, long days (how we know)
Summer and rain
A growing garden needs about 25 mm1 in of water a week, rain and watering together. Here is what a normal month brings.
Month by month
- January
- high ~9 °C48 °F · low ~-1 °C30 °F · rain ~90 mm3.6 in
- February
- high ~10 °C51 °F · low ~0 °C31 °F · rain ~78 mm3.1 in
- March
- high ~14 °C58 °F · low ~3 °C37 °F · rain ~101 mm4 in
- April
- high ~20 °C68 °F · low ~8 °C47 °F · rain ~83 mm3.3 in
- May
- high ~24 °C76 °F · low ~13 °C56 °F · rain ~93 mm3.6 in
- June
- high ~29 °C83 °F · low ~18 °C65 °F · rain ~113 mm4.4 in
- July
- high ~31 °C88 °F · low ~21 °C69 °F · rain ~127 mm5 in
- August
- high ~30 °C85 °F · low ~20 °C67 °F · rain ~114 mm4.5 in
- September
- high ~27 °C80 °F · low ~17 °C62 °F · rain ~115 mm4.5 in
- October
- high ~22 °C71 °F · low ~11 °C51 °F · rain ~109 mm4.3 in
- November
- high ~16 °C60 °F · low ~5 °C41 °F · rain ~78 mm3.1 in
- December
- high ~11 °C52 °F · low ~1 °C34 °F · rain ~100 mm3.9 in
Where these numbers come from
NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 Climate Normals, the Painter 2 W station (listed by NOAA as Painter 2 W, USC00446475), at 37.58, -75.82. These are that station’s own records, unshifted. The further your garden is from it, the less exactly they describe your ground. The planner finds the nearest station to your garden and lowers its confidence with distance, so no number is presented as if it were measured in your garden.
Cold air also pools in low ground on the clear, still nights when frost happens, so a hollow can freeze while a slope a few hundred feet away does not. No table can know that about your garden. A few seasons of your own logged frosts can.
ZIP codes nearest this station
23301, 23306, 23350, 23357, 23358, 23389, 23398, 23401, 23410, 23413, 23417, 23418…
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23420, 23422, 23423, 23440, 23441, 23480, 23486.
Nearby stations
The nearest stations and how their last-frost dates compare. Together they show how frost varies across your area.
- W Point 2 NW, VA, last frost by April 6
- Salisbury, MD, last frost by April 3
- Patuxent River Naval Air Station, MD, last frost by March 29
- Fentress NAAS, VA, last frost by March 23
- Mechanicsville 5 NE, MD, last frost by April 17
- Royal Oak 2 SSW, MD, last frost by April 1
Other stations in Virginia.
- Ashland Hanover County Municipal Airport, VA, last frost by April 10
- Corbin, VA, last frost by April 14
- Washington Reagan Airport, VA, last frost by March 24
- Vienna, VA, last frost by April 14
- Warrenton 3 SE, VA, last frost by April 9
- Somerset, VA, last frost by April 17
- Purcellville, VA, last frost by April 16
- Roanoke Regional Airport, VA, last frost by April 3
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