Woodbine, NJ 08314 Frost Dates
08314, near Woodbine, NJ: the frost window
Around 04/24 is the usual last spring frost, about 239 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 181 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Woodbine in Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Woodbine's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Woodbine against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 181 frost-free days, Woodbine places 24,563 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NJ, it ranks 735 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 08314: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Woodbine's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Woodbine's dates instead of trusting one.