Margate City, NJ 08402 Frost Dates
Margate City, NJ: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/26, roughly 210 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/22, roughly 243 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 Margate City, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 12 weeks until Margate 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 Margate City's last frost
03/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Margate City against the rest of the dataset
Margate City's growing season runs about 243 days, ranking 8,293 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NJ, it ranks 18 of 906.
Learn more
Before leaning on 08402's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Margate City can differ from the 08402 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Margate City's frost date answer different questions.