Seaside Park, NJ 08752 Frost Dates
08752, near Seaside Park, NJ: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/23, about 238 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 179 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 Seaside Park, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Seaside Park'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 Seaside Park'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.
Seaside Park against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 179 frost-free days, Seaside Park places 25,345 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NJ, it ranks 774 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 08752: the frost range, on how to read the range around Seaside Park's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Seaside Park can differ from the 08752 normal.