Atlantic Highlands, NJ 07718 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Atlantic Highlands, NJ?
Around 04/09 is the usual last spring frost, about 224 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/03, about 208 frost-free days later.
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 Atlantic Highlands, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 10 weeks of growing season left in Atlantic Highlands before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Atlantic Highlands's last frost
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/28 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/23 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Atlantic Highlands compares
At roughly 208 frost-free days, Atlantic Highlands places 15,590 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NJ, it ranks 328 of 906.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 7b and Atlantic Highlands's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Atlantic Highlands's dates instead of trusting one.