Tinton Falls, NJ 07722 Frost Dates
07722, near Tinton Falls, NJ: the frost window
Around 04/17 is the usual last spring frost, about 232 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 190 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Tinton Falls, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Tinton Falls's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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 Tinton Falls's last frost
04/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/02 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.
Tinton Falls against the rest of the dataset
About 190 days separate Tinton Falls's last and first frost, putting it 21,060 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NJ, it ranks 550 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 07722: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Tinton Falls's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Tinton Falls's dates instead of trusting one.