Teterboro, NJ 07606 Frost Dates
07606, near Teterboro, NJ: the frost window
Around 03/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 214 days away. 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 Teterboro, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Teterboro's growing season runs out in roughly 12 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
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.
Teterboro against the rest of the dataset
Teterboro's growing season runs about 236 days, ranking 9,526 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NJ, it ranks 180 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 07606: the frost range, on how to read the range around Teterboro's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Teterboro can differ from the 07606 normal.