Paterson, NJ 07514 Frost Dates
07514, near Paterson, NJ: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/15, about 230 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 195 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Paterson in Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Paterson's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Paterson's last frost
04/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Paterson against the rest of the dataset
Paterson's growing season runs about 195 days, ranking 19,145 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NJ, it ranks 484 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 07514: local microclimates, on what one yard in Paterson can differ from the 07514 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Paterson's frost date answer different questions.