Camden, NJ 08102 Frost Dates
08102, near Camden, NJ: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/15, about 230 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 199 days after the last spring frost.
Camden 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
Camden's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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
04/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Camden against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 199 frost-free days, Camden places 18,009 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NJ, it ranks 429 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 08102: the frost range, on how to read the range around Camden's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Camden can differ from the 08102 normal.