Peapack and Gladstone, NJ 07979 Frost Dates
07979, near Peapack and Gladstone, NJ: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/26, roughly 241 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/18, roughly 176 days after the last spring frost.
Peapack and Gladstone sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Peapack and Gladstone's growing season runs out in roughly 7 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 Peapack and Gladstone's last frost
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Peapack and Gladstone against the rest of the dataset
About 176 days separate Peapack and Gladstone's last and first frost, putting it 26,473 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NJ, it ranks 796 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 07979: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Peapack and Gladstone's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Peapack and Gladstone's dates instead of trusting one.