Camden, NJ 19102 Frost Dates
Camden, NJ: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/02, roughly 217 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/10, roughly 224 days after the last spring frost.
Camden sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 11 weeks until Camden'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
04/02 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 04/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Camden against the rest of the dataset
About 224 days separate Camden's last and first frost, putting it 11,716 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NJ, it ranks 206 of 906.
Learn more
Before leaning on 19102's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Camden's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Camden can differ from the 19102 normal.