Hingham, MA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00193624, 1961 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 35 ft, 42.227, -70.912. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 29	Oct 16
Earliest	Apr 5 (2019)	Sep 20 (1964)
Latest	May 28 (1968)	Nov 18 (2000)
Trend	2.6 days earlier per decade	4.0 days later per decade
Years with data	64	63

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 16 and the median first fall date is Oct 28.

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

"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.