Hoboken, NJ 10038 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Hoboken, NJ, ZIP 10038
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/30, roughly 214 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/20, about 236 frost-free days later.
Hoboken sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7b around Hoboken has about 12 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Hoboken's last frost
03/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/14 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/09 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Hoboken compares
About 236 days separate Hoboken's last and first frost, putting it 9,251 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NJ, it ranks 44 of 906.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Hoboken's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Hoboken can differ from the 10038 normal.