Hoboken, NJ 10282 Frost Dates
Hoboken, NJ: when does the frost end?
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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Hoboken in Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's 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.
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
About 236 days separate Hoboken's last and first frost, putting it 9,274 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NJ, it ranks 67 of 906.
Learn more
Before leaning on 10282's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Hoboken can differ from the 10282 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Hoboken's frost date answer different questions.