Stockton, NJ 18913 Frost Dates
Stockton, NJ: when does the frost end?
Around 04/16 is the usual last spring frost, about 231 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 185 days after the last spring frost.
Stockton sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Stockton's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Stockton's last frost
04/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Stockton against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 185 frost-free days, Stockton places 23,290 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NJ, it ranks 717 of 906.
Learn more
Before leaning on 18913's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Stockton can differ from the 18913 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Stockton's frost date answer different questions.