Beverly, MA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00190593, 1996 to 2022, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 65 ft, 42.588, -70.837. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 29	Oct 17
Earliest	Apr 5 (2015)	Oct 4 (1996)
Latest	May 18 (2003)	Nov 10 (2014)
Trend	7.3 days earlier per decade	8.1 days later per decade
Years with data	19	20

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 14 and the median first fall date is Oct 29.

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.

Chart

Last spring frost (32°F)

First fall frost (32°F)

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

Year by year

Year	Last spring 32°F	First fall 32°F	Last spring 28°F	First fall 28°F
2022	Apr 18	no data	Mar 30	no data
2021	Apr 22	Nov 4	Apr 5	Nov 7
2020	Apr 25	Oct 18	Apr 21	Oct 31
2015	Apr 5	no data	Apr 3	no data
2014	Apr 22	Nov 10	Apr 20	Nov 17
2013	no data	Oct 14	no data	Oct 26
2012	May 1	Oct 13	Apr 7	Oct 14
2011	Apr 23	Oct 28	Apr 10	Oct 31
2010	May 12	Oct 20	Mar 28	Nov 2
2009	Apr 21	Oct 13	Apr 17	Nov 7
2008	May 2	Oct 19	May 2	Oct 24
2007	May 8	Oct 18	Apr 21	Oct 30
2006	Apr 30	Oct 14	Apr 10	Nov 4
2005	no data	Oct 22	no data	Nov 11
2003	May 18	Oct 19	Apr 18	Oct 20
2002	Apr 28	Oct 15	Apr 24	Oct 22
2001	May 8	Oct 9	May 7	Oct 29
2000	May 3	Oct 23	Apr 14	Nov 18
1999	May 14	Oct 8	Apr 11	Oct 8
1998	Apr 29	Oct 6	Apr 13	Oct 27
1997	Apr 27	Oct 12	Apr 16	Oct 23
1996	no data	Oct 4	no data	Oct 12

"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.