Frost history / Margate, NJ
Margate, NJ: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00285243, 2011 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 16 ft, 39.338, -74.504. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 29 | Nov 22 |
| Earliest | Mar 2 (2020) | Nov 2 (2023) |
| Latest | Apr 16 (2014) | Dec 9 (2016) |
| Trend | 5.6 days earlier per decade | 5.0 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 14 | 15 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 7 and the median first fall date is Nov 29.
The trend is a straight-line fit through the years with a freeze. A positive spring trend means the last frost now comes later. Short or patchy records give noisy trends.
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Last spring frost (32°F)
First fall frost (32°F)
Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.
Year by year
| Year | Last spring 32°F | First fall 32°F | Last spring 28°F | First fall 28°F |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Apr 10 | Nov 11 | Mar 4 | Dec 5 |
| 2024 | Mar 25 | Nov 30 | Mar 1 | Dec 1 |
| 2023 | Mar 21 | Nov 2 | Mar 21 | Nov 29 |
| 2022 | Mar 31 | Nov 18 | Mar 30 | Nov 21 |
| 2021 | Apr 4 | Nov 24 | Mar 6 | none |
| 2020 | Mar 2 | Dec 8 | Feb 22 | Dec 18 |
| 2019 | Mar 18 | Nov 9 | Mar 8 | Nov 13 |
| 2018 | Mar 22 | Nov 22 | Feb 14 | Nov 22 |
| 2017 | Mar 24 | Nov 11 | Mar 24 | Nov 11 |
| 2016 | Apr 6 | Dec 9 | Mar 4 | Dec 9 |
| 2015 | Apr 2 | Nov 24 | Mar 30 | Dec 20 |
| 2014 | Apr 16 | Nov 14 | Mar 27 | Nov 18 |
| 2013 | Apr 4 | Nov 24 | Feb 26 | Nov 24 |
| 2012 | Mar 27 | Nov 29 | Mar 7 | none |
| 2011 | no data | Nov 18 | no data | Dec 18 |
"none" means the station recorded no freeze at that threshold in that half of the year. "no data" means more than 10% of the season's daily readings were missing. Years with no usable data are left out. See the methodology for the rules, and the ZIP lookup for 1991 to 2020 frost probabilities.