Zone 4 Apple Trees

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27 apples for zone 4, listed A to Z. The ones rated only to 4b, the warmer half of the zone (-25°F to -20°F), have a 4b tag on them. Everything else is hardy through all of zone 4, down to -30°F.

More About Zone 4 Apples

Hardy through all of zone 4: Autumn Strawberry, Belle de Boskoop, Brown Snout, Cherry Cox, Claygate Pearmain, Dolores River Sorbet, Ellis Bitter, Evercrisp, Golden Harvey, Hunt Russet, Karmijn de Sonnaville, Laxton's Favorite, Lubsk Queen, Margil, Newtown Pippin, Northern Spy, Pink Princess, Pristine, Roxbury Russet, Six Finger Jack, Starkey, Swiss Limbertwig, Thunderbolt, Tolman Sweet, Wise Monkey and Yates.

Rated to 4b, the warmer half: Glockenapfel. Save it for a 4b site. If you're in the colder half (4a), skip the ones with the 4b tag.

Every apple here needs a second variety blooming at the same time to pollenize it. Crabapples and applecrabs count, and they make some of the best pollenizers there are. Our apple pollination map shows which ones bloom together.

Late bloomers, which give you better odds in a frost pocket: Brown Snout, Ellis Bitter, Karmijn de Sonnaville, Northern Spy, Roxbury Russet, Thunderbolt and Wise Monkey. For jam and jelly: Belle de Boskoop, Northern Spy, Thunderbolt and Yates.

Other zones: Zone 2 Apples · Zone 3 Apples · Zone 5 Apples · Everything for Zone 4.

Questions We Get

What does zone 4 mean on your scale?

On our MFTC scale, zone 4 means the coldest night you should plan for (the 1-in-30-year low) falls between -30°F and -20°F. Zone 4a runs -30°F to -25°F and zone 4b runs -25°F to -20°F. That is colder than a USDA zone 4, which is built on the average yearly low, so run your address through our cold hardiness calculator instead of going off a USDA map.

Can I plant the 4b apples in zone 4a?

We don't recommend it. A 4b rating means it has come through -25°F, not the -30°F a cold zone 4a winter can bring. Not sure which half you're in? Our cold hardiness calculator will tell you.