Carteret, NJ 07008 Frost Dates
07008, near Carteret, NJ: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/02, roughly 217 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/10, roughly 222 days after the last spring frost.
Carteret sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Carteret's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Carteret against the rest of the dataset
About 222 days separate Carteret's last and first frost, putting it 12,210 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NJ, it ranks 249 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 07008: the frost range, on how to read the range around Carteret's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Carteret can differ from the 07008 normal.