Last Frost Day

Frost history / Hampton, CT

Hampton, CT: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00063420, 2007 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 490 ft, 41.767, -72.053. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 26Oct 17
EarliestApr 12 (2019)Oct 9 (2022)
LatestMay 22 (2020)Nov 3 (2021)
Trend1.8 days earlier per decade1.2 days later per decade
Years with data1819

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 12 and the median first fall date is Oct 31.

The trend is a straight-line fit through the years with a freeze. A positive spring trend means the last frost now comes later. Short or patchy records give noisy trends.

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Last spring frost (32°F)

Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15May 30201020202007: May 72009: Apr 182010: May 112011: Apr 232012: May 12013: May 152014: Apr 222015: Apr 262016: May 102017: Apr 162018: Apr 252019: Apr 122020: May 222021: Apr 232022: Apr 222023: May 192024: Apr 282025: Apr 19

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11201020202007: Oct 152008: Oct 212009: Oct 122010: Oct 102011: Oct 282012: Oct 132013: Oct 212014: Oct 202015: Oct 172016: Oct 112017: Nov 12018: Oct 172019: Oct 192020: Oct 182021: Nov 32022: Oct 92023: Nov 22024: Oct 112025: Oct 10

Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.

Year by year

YearLast spring 32°FFirst fall 32°FLast spring 28°FFirst fall 28°F
2025Apr 19Oct 10Apr 11Nov 2
2024Apr 28Oct 11Mar 25Nov 4
2023May 19Nov 2Apr 11Nov 2
2022Apr 22Oct 9Apr 19Nov 15
2021Apr 23Nov 3Apr 23Nov 4
2020May 22Oct 18Apr 25Oct 31
2019Apr 12Oct 19Apr 5Nov 2
2018Apr 25Oct 17Apr 12Oct 19
2017Apr 16Nov 1Mar 31Nov 9
2016May 10Oct 11Apr 13Oct 27
2015Apr 26Oct 17Apr 25Oct 18
2014Apr 22Oct 20Apr 21Oct 20
2013May 15Oct 21Apr 8Oct 26
2012May 1Oct 13Mar 28Oct 13
2011Apr 23Oct 28Apr 9Oct 31
2010May 11Oct 10Mar 29Nov 1
2009Apr 18Oct 12Apr 13Nov 7
2008no dataOct 21no dataOct 24
2007May 7Oct 15Apr 12Oct 29

"none" means the station recorded no freeze at that threshold in that half of the year. "no data" means more than 10% of the season's daily readings were missing. Years with no usable data are left out. See the methodology for the rules, and the ZIP lookup for 1991 to 2020 frost probabilities.