Palisades Park, NJ 07650 Frost Dates
Palisades Park, NJ: when does the frost end?
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 Palisades Park, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 12 weeks until Palisades Park's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 03/30 isn't a guarantee
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.
Palisades Park against the rest of the dataset
About 236 days separate Palisades Park's last and first frost, putting it 9,328 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NJ, it ranks 101 of 906.
Learn more
Before leaning on 07650's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Palisades Park's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Palisades Park can differ from the 07650 normal.