Guttenberg, NJ 10261 Frost Dates
10261, near Guttenberg, NJ: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/30, about 214 days from today. 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 Guttenberg, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Guttenberg'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.
Guttenberg against the rest of the dataset
Guttenberg's growing season runs about 236 days, ranking 9,398 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NJ, it ranks 163 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 10261: local microclimates, on what one yard in Guttenberg can differ from the 10261 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Guttenberg's frost date answer different questions.