Spring Lake, NJ 07762 Frost Dates
07762, near Spring Lake, NJ: the frost window
Around 04/09 is the usual last spring frost, about 224 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/03, roughly 208 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Spring Lake in Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Spring Lake's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Spring Lake against the rest of the dataset
Spring Lake's growing season runs about 208 days, ranking 15,627 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NJ, it ranks 336 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 07762: the frost range, on how to read the range around Spring Lake's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Spring Lake can differ from the 07762 normal.