Atlantic City, NJ 08401 Frost Dates
Atlantic City, NJ: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/26, about 210 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/21, roughly 240 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Atlantic City in Zone 8a (10 to 15°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
With roughly 12 weeks until Atlantic City's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Atlantic City's last frost
03/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Atlantic City against the rest of the dataset
About 240 days separate Atlantic City's last and first frost, putting it 8,670 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NJ, it ranks 20 of 906.
Learn more
Before leaning on 08401's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Atlantic City's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Atlantic City can differ from the 08401 normal.