Surf City, NJ 08050 Frost Dates
08050, near Surf City, NJ: the frost window
Around 04/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 216 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/15, roughly 230 days after the last spring frost.
Surf City 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Surf City's growing season runs out in roughly 11 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 Surf City's last frost
04/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Surf City against the rest of the dataset
About 230 days separate Surf City's last and first frost, putting it 10,432 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NJ, it ranks 201 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 08050: local microclimates, on what one yard in Surf City can differ from the 08050 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Surf City's frost date answer different questions.