Union City, NJ 07087 Frost Dates
Union City, NJ: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/30, about 214 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/20, roughly 236 days after the last spring frost.
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 Union City, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 12 weeks until Union City's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Union City's last frost
03/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Union City against the rest of the dataset
About 236 days separate Union City's last and first frost, putting it 9,234 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NJ, it ranks 27 of 906.
Learn more
Before leaning on 07087's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Union City's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Union City can differ from the 07087 normal.