Hoboken, NJ 10158 Frost Dates
10158, near Hoboken, NJ: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/30, roughly 214 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/20, roughly 236 days after the last spring frost.
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.
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.
Why 03/30 isn't a guarantee
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
Hoboken's growing season runs about 236 days, ranking 9,260 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NJ, it ranks 53 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 10158: 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 10158 normal.