Englewood Cliffs, NJ 10457 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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Englewood Cliffs 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 Englewood Cliffs's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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 10,392 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NJ, it ranks 193 of 906.
Learn more
Before leaning on 10457's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Englewood Cliffs's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Englewood Cliffs can differ from the 10457 normal.