Bayonne, NJ 10314 Frost Dates
Bayonne, NJ: when does the frost end?
Around 04/02 is the usual last spring frost, about 217 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/10, roughly 222 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Bayonne 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 11 weeks until Bayonne's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Bayonne's last frost
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bayonne against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 222 frost-free days, Bayonne places 12,188 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NJ, it ranks 245 of 906.
Learn more
Before leaning on 10314's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Bayonne's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Bayonne's dates instead of trusting one.