West New York, NJ 10151 Frost Dates
When can you plant in West New York, NJ?
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 West New York, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 12 weeks of growing season left in West New York before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around West New York'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 West New York compares
At roughly 236 frost-free days, West New York places 9,292 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NJ, it ranks 85 of 906.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 7b and West New York's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around West New York's dates instead of trusting one.