Egg Harbor City, NJ 08405 Frost Dates
08405, near Egg Harbor City, NJ: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/18, about 233 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/29, roughly 190 days after the last spring frost.
Egg Harbor City sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°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
Egg Harbor City's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Egg Harbor City's last frost
04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Egg Harbor City against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 190 frost-free days, Egg Harbor City places 21,156 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NJ, it ranks 588 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 08405: the frost range, on how to read the range around Egg Harbor City's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Egg Harbor City can differ from the 08405 normal.