Eatontown, NJ 07724 Frost Dates
Eatontown, NJ: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/09, about 224 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/03, roughly 208 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 Eatontown, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Eatontown's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Eatontown's last frost
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Eatontown against the rest of the dataset
Eatontown's growing season runs about 208 days, ranking 15,548 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NJ, it ranks 314 of 906.
Learn more
Before leaning on 07724's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Eatontown can differ from the 07724 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Eatontown's frost date answer different questions.