Hoboken, NJ 10165 Frost Dates
10165, 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.
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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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
About 236 days separate Hoboken's last and first frost, putting it 9,261 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NJ, it ranks 54 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 10165: 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 10165 normal.