Camden, NJ 19108 Frost Dates
19108, near Camden, NJ: the frost window
Around 04/02 is the usual last spring frost, about 217 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/10, roughly 224 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
Camden'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.
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 11,719 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NJ, it ranks 209 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 19108: the frost range, on how to read the range around Camden's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Camden can differ from the 19108 normal.