Cresskill, NJ 07626 Frost Dates
Cresskill, NJ: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/20, about 235 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 189 days after the last spring frost.
Cresskill sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 8 weeks until Cresskill's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Cresskill's last frost
04/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cresskill against the rest of the dataset
Cresskill's growing season runs about 189 days, ranking 21,477 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NJ, it ranks 621 of 906.
Learn more
Before leaning on 07626's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Cresskill's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Cresskill's dates instead of trusting one.