Merchantville, NJ 08052 Frost Dates
Merchantville, NJ: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/12, roughly 227 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 200 days after the last spring frost.
Merchantville 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
With roughly 9 weeks until Merchantville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Merchantville's last frost
04/12 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 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Merchantville against the rest of the dataset
About 200 days separate Merchantville's last and first frost, putting it 17,782 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NJ, it ranks 423 of 906.
Learn more
Before leaning on 08052's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Merchantville can differ from the 08052 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Merchantville's frost date answer different questions.