Ship Bottom, NJ 08008 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Ship Bottom, NJ?
Around 04/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 216 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/15, about 230 frost-free days later.
Ship Bottom sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°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.
What to do before the first frost
About 11 weeks of growing season left in Ship Bottom before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Ship Bottom's last frost
04/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/16 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/15 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Ship Bottom compares
At roughly 230 frost-free days, Ship Bottom places 10,437 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NJ, it ranks 203 of 906.
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