Hoboken, NJ 10174 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.
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
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.
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
Hoboken's growing season runs about 236 days, ranking 9,266 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NJ, it ranks 59 of 906.
Learn more
Before leaning on 10174's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Hoboken can differ from the 10174 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Hoboken's frost date answer different questions.