Englewood Cliffs, NJ 10468 Frost Dates
10468, near Englewood Cliffs, NJ: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/01, about 216 days from today. 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
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 10,396 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NJ, it ranks 197 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 10468: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Englewood Cliffs's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Englewood Cliffs's dates instead of trusting one.