Vineland, NJ 08347 Frost Dates
08347, near Vineland, NJ: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/11, about 226 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/03, roughly 206 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 Vineland, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Vineland's growing season runs out in roughly 10 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
04/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/29 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/27 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Vineland against the rest of the dataset
About 206 days separate Vineland's last and first frost, putting it 15,928 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NJ, it ranks 344 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 08347: local microclimates, on what one yard in Vineland can differ from the 08347 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Vineland's frost date answer different questions.