Cliffside Park, NJ 07010 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Cliffside Park, NJ?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/30, roughly 214 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/20, about 236 frost-free days later.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Cliffside Park, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 12 weeks of growing season left in Cliffside Park before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
Why 03/30 isn't a guarantee
03/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/14 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/09 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Cliffside Park compares
At roughly 236 frost-free days, Cliffside Park places 9,322 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NJ, it ranks 99 of 906.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Cliffside Park's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Cliffside Park can differ from the 07010 normal.