Edgartown, MA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00192501, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 30 ft, 41.385, -70.518. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 22	Oct 27
Earliest	Mar 28 (2010)	Oct 2 (1992)
Latest	May 27 (1972)	Nov 25 (2012)
Trend	2.6 days earlier per decade	3.2 days later per decade
Years with data	74	73

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 9 and the median first fall date is Nov 11.

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
2025	Apr 18	Nov 7	Apr 10	Nov 19
2024	Apr 27	Nov 10	Apr 26	Dec 1
2023	Apr 10	Nov 3	Apr 3	Nov 25
2022	Apr 5	Nov 15	Mar 30	Nov 21
2021	Apr 4	Nov 6	Apr 4	Nov 24
2020	Apr 21	Nov 15	Apr 21	Nov 19
2019	Apr 2	Nov 9	Apr 2	Nov 9
2018	Apr 11	Oct 19	Apr 11	Oct 22
2017	Apr 3	Nov 11	Mar 24	Nov 11
2016	Apr 10	Nov 22	Apr 9	Nov 29
2015	Apr 13	Oct 27	Apr 2	Nov 18
2014	Apr 21	Nov 15	Apr 10	Nov 16
2013	Apr 7	Oct 26	Apr 7	Nov 13
2012	Apr 7	Nov 25	Mar 28	Nov 27
2011	Apr 10	Oct 31	Apr 9	Nov 6
2010	Mar 28	Nov 3	Mar 28	Nov 3
2009	Apr 17	Nov 7	Mar 26	Dec 7
2008	May 1	Oct 24	Apr 3	Nov 19
2007	May 7	Oct 29	Apr 8	Nov 12
2006	Apr 10	Nov 5	Mar 29	Dec 5
2005	Apr 17	Nov 12	Mar 27	Nov 19
2004	Apr 17	Oct 29	Mar 23	Nov 10
2003	Apr 25	Oct 19	Apr 1	Oct 25
2002	Apr 27	Oct 25	Mar 23	Nov 2
2001	May 7	Oct 19	Apr 4	Nov 12
2000	May 1	Nov 21	Apr 11	Nov 23
1999	May 1	Nov 9	Mar 27	Nov 9
1998	Apr 12	Nov 4	Mar 18	Nov 4
1997	Apr 22	Oct 23	Apr 11	Oct 23
1996	May 14	Nov 2	Apr 9	Nov 13
1995	Apr 17	Oct 31	Apr 11	Nov 6
1994	Apr 23	Oct 12	Apr 9	Nov 21
1993	Apr 24	Oct 24	Apr 7	Nov 3
1992	May 20	Oct 2	May 20	Nov 9
1991	Apr 13	Oct 21	Apr 13	Nov 15
1990	Apr 19	Oct 28	Apr 19	Oct 28
1989	Apr 25	Nov 4	Apr 23	Nov 5
1988	May 9	Oct 14	Mar 30	Oct 14
1987	May 14	no data	Apr 15	no data
1986	Apr 16	Oct 8	Apr 13	Nov 11
1985	May 9	Oct 22	Apr 13	Nov 24
1984	Apr 22	Oct 7	Apr 4	Oct 7
1983	Apr 14	Oct 23	Apr 1	Oct 31
1982	Apr 30	Oct 18	Apr 23	Nov 11
1981	Apr 23	no data	Mar 26	no data
1980	Apr 19	Oct 30	Mar 17	Oct 31
1979	Apr 13	Oct 28	Mar 19	Oct 28
1978	May 1	Oct 31	Mar 26	Nov 26
1977	Apr 29	Oct 25	Apr 11	Nov 15
1976	Apr 13	Oct 27	Apr 13	Nov 3
1975	May 1	Nov 1	Apr 11	Nov 1
1974	Apr 27	Oct 22	Mar 30	Nov 17
1973	Apr 21	Nov 8	Mar 25	Nov 8
1972	May 27	Oct 11	Apr 27	Oct 21
1971	Apr 24	Nov 8	Apr 18	Nov 9
1970	Apr 20	Oct 20	Apr 20	Nov 25
1969	Apr 21	Oct 23	Apr 21	Nov 22
1968	May 14	Nov 1	Apr 7	Nov 27
1967	May 1	Nov 6	Apr 26	Nov 7
1966	May 3	Oct 27	Apr 17	Oct 31
1965	Apr 25	Oct 6	Apr 8	Nov 3
1964	May 4	Oct 12	Apr 6	Nov 19
1963	Apr 14	Nov 4	Apr 10	Nov 26
1962	Apr 18	Oct 25	Apr 18	Oct 30
1961	May 6	Oct 16	Apr 21	Nov 12
1960	Apr 30	Oct 13	Apr 30	Oct 22
1959	Apr 15	Oct 16	Apr 15	Oct 20
1958	Apr 14	Oct 7	Apr 10	Nov 23
1957	May 6	Oct 22	Apr 16	Nov 11
1956	May 9	Oct 11	Apr 11	Nov 11
1955	May 2	Oct 23	Apr 9	Nov 21
1954	May 14	Oct 8	May 14	Oct 8
1953	Apr 15	Oct 9	Mar 22	Nov 13
1952	May 3	Oct 21	May 2	Nov 9
1951	no data	Oct 14	no data	Oct 14

"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.