Hoboken, NJ 10122 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Hoboken, NJ, ZIP 10122
Around 03/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 214 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/20, about 236 frost-free days later.
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 Hoboken, not a forecast for this year.
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.
Why 03/30 isn't a guarantee
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
At roughly 236 frost-free days, Hoboken places 9,258 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NJ, it ranks 51 of 906.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Hoboken's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Hoboken's dates instead of trusting one.