Newark, NJ 07112 Frost Dates
Newark, NJ: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/02, about 217 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/10, roughly 222 days after the last spring frost.
Newark 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
With roughly 11 weeks until Newark's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Newark's last frost
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.
Newark against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 222 frost-free days, Newark places 12,173 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NJ, it ranks 230 of 906.
Learn more
Before leaning on 07112's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Newark can differ from the 07112 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Newark's frost date answer different questions.