Highland Park, NJ 08904 Frost Dates
Highland Park, NJ: when does the frost end?
Around 04/11 is the usual last spring frost, about 226 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 202 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Highland Park in Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 9 weeks until Highland Park's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/30 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Highland Park against the rest of the dataset
Highland Park's growing season runs about 202 days, ranking 17,168 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NJ, it ranks 399 of 906.
Learn more
Before leaning on 08904's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Highland Park's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Highland Park's dates instead of trusting one.