Hoboken, NJ 10286 Frost Dates
Hoboken, NJ: when does the frost end?
Around 03/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 214 days away. 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.
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 9,276 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NJ, it ranks 69 of 906.
Learn more
Before leaning on 10286's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Hoboken's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Hoboken's dates instead of trusting one.