Brigantine, NJ 08203 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Brigantine, NJ, ZIP 08203
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/26, about 210 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/21, about 240 frost-free days later.
Brigantine sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°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
Zone 8a around Brigantine has about 12 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Brigantine's last frost
03/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/10 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/06 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Brigantine compares
At roughly 240 frost-free days, Brigantine places 8,682 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NJ, it ranks 21 of 906.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Brigantine can differ from the 08203 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Brigantine's frost date answer different questions.