Ocean Gate, NJ 08740 Frost Dates
08740, near Ocean Gate, NJ: the frost window
Around 04/23 is the usual last spring frost, about 238 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 179 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Ocean Gate in Zone 7b (5 to 10°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
Ocean Gate'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.
The actual range around Ocean Gate's last frost
04/23 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 05/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Ocean Gate against the rest of the dataset
About 179 days separate Ocean Gate's last and first frost, putting it 25,350 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NJ, it ranks 777 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 08740: the frost range, on how to read the range around Ocean Gate's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Ocean Gate can differ from the 08740 normal.