FrostDateCheck

Camden, NJ 19103 Frost Dates

When can you plant in Camden, NJ?

Zone 7b

Around 04/02 is the usual last spring frost, about 217 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/10, about 224 frost-free days later.

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 Camden, not a forecast for this year.

What to do before the first frost

About 11 weeks of growing season left in Camden before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.

The actual range around Camden's last frost

04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/19 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/13 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Camden compares

At roughly 224 frost-free days, Camden places 11,717 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NJ, it ranks 207 of 906.

Learn more

the frost range covers how to read the range around Camden's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Camden can differ from the 19103 normal.