Cape May Point, NJ 08212 Frost Dates
Cape May Point, NJ: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/01, about 216 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/09, roughly 222 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Cape May Point, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Cape May Point's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/01 isn't a guarantee
04/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/19 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.
Cape May Point against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 222 frost-free days, Cape May Point places 12,345 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NJ, it ranks 266 of 906.
Learn more
Before leaning on 08212's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Cape May Point's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Cape May Point can differ from the 08212 normal.