Vineland, NJ 08361 Frost Dates
08361, near Vineland, NJ: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/24, roughly 239 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 181 days after the last spring frost.
Vineland sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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
Vineland'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 04/08 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Vineland against the rest of the dataset
About 181 days separate Vineland's last and first frost, putting it 24,434 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NJ, it ranks 718 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 08361: the frost range, on how to read the range around Vineland's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Vineland can differ from the 08361 normal.