Englewood Cliffs, NJ 10460 Frost Dates
10460, near Englewood Cliffs, NJ: the frost window
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
Englewood Cliffs's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
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 10,394 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NJ, it ranks 195 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 10460: local microclimates, on what one yard in Englewood Cliffs can differ from the 10460 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Englewood Cliffs's frost date answer different questions.