Englewood Cliffs, NJ 10453 Frost Dates
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/01, roughly 216 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/16, roughly 230 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 Englewood Cliffs, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Englewood Cliffs's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Englewood Cliffs's last frost
04/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Englewood Cliffs against the rest of the dataset
Englewood Cliffs's growing season runs about 230 days, ranking 10,391 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NJ, it ranks 192 of 906.
Learn more
Before leaning on 10453's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Englewood Cliffs's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Englewood Cliffs's dates instead of trusting one.