Hoboken, NJ 10121 Frost Dates
10121, near Hoboken, NJ: the frost window
Around 03/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 214 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/20, roughly 236 days after the last spring frost.
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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Hoboken's growing season runs out in roughly 12 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 Hoboken's last frost
03/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hoboken against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 236 frost-free days, Hoboken places 9,257 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NJ, it ranks 50 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 10121: the frost range, on how to read the range around Hoboken's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Hoboken can differ from the 10121 normal.