Hoboken, NJ 10170 Frost Dates
Hoboken, NJ: when does the frost end?
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
With roughly 12 weeks until Hoboken's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
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
Hoboken's growing season runs about 236 days, ranking 9,264 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NJ, it ranks 57 of 906.
Learn more
Before leaning on 10170's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Hoboken's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Hoboken can differ from the 10170 normal.