Camden, NJ 19106 Frost Dates
Camden, NJ: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/15, roughly 230 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 199 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Camden 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
With roughly 9 weeks until Camden's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Camden's last frost
04/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Camden against the rest of the dataset
About 199 days separate Camden's last and first frost, putting it 18,012 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NJ, it ranks 432 of 906.
Learn more
Before leaning on 19106'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 19106 normal.