Asbury Park, New Jersey, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Asbury Park, no two yards are alike.
A low spot, a south-facing slope, or a stand of trees moves the frost date and sun across a single Asbury Park lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Asbury Park — the short answer
Asbury Park, New Jersey: USDA zone 7b, about 247 days between hard freezes, across 915 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 22
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 24
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~247
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 915 acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are this town’s own 28°F normals: light frosts run a few weeks past them, and tender transplants usually wait 2–3 weeks after the last hard freeze.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 7b is Asbury Park's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Asbury Park's 247-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Asbury Park
Each reading below is measured for Asbury Park itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredAsbury Park runs about 247 days between hard freezes — a long growing season.
There is slack for succession plantings and slow-finishing crops: many vegetables can be sown twice, and the heat-lovers have time to ripen fully.
Plan a second sowing of quick crops after the first comes out, and use the fall window most gardeners let sit idle.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredAsbury Park sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b.
The zone sets which perennials, shrubs, and fruit trees live through an average winter here — a plant rated for a colder zone is a safe bet, one rated warmer needs winter protection or gets treated as an annual.
Match perennials and fruit to the zone before you buy, so nothing you plant is a gamble against the cold.
USDA PHZM 2023
The kind of country Asbury Park is in
Asbury Park sits in the Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Asbury Park's own centroid rather than borrowed from Monmouth County.
What Grows in Asbury Park
Every plant below cleared Asbury Park's own zone 7b and its 247-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Jersey profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Asbury Park?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 22; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 22 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 24 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
Documented around Asbury Park
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Asbury Park, first recorded 2020. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Asbury Park
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Asbury Park. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- PAUL THOMAS AUTO SALESUnderground Storage Tanks · 250 ft
- 809 THIRD AVENUEUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- THE CENTER IN ASBURY PARKUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- CUMBERLAND FARMS INC PROPERTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 550 ft
- HOSPITAL CENTRAL SERVICES COOPERATIVEUnderground Storage Tanks · 550 ft
- GETTY 00209Underground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- COMMERCIAL BUILDINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- RALE ELECTRIC SUPPLY COUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- BENNETTS TRUCK SERVICE INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- GETTY 56132Underground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- ICON IMAGING INCBrownfields · 650 ft
- ASBURY PARK - SALVATION ARMYUnderground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Asbury Park's center, not your beds. Run your own address for what's upwind of you specifically.
Environmental Intelligence
The counts behind that headline — every source type on the record near Asbury Park.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Asbury Park
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Asbury Park
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Asbury Park, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Asbury Park — Superfund (20 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (984 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Asbury Park
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Asbury Park average
Your land is one point inside Asbury Park
Everything above resolves to Asbury Park as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 915 acres. Your parcel is one point inside that footprint. Slope, tree cover, a low spot that pools cold air, and what is in the soil are all resolved at the address, and none of them are visible at city scale. That is the honest boundary of this page, and the reason the next step is a reading of your own ground rather than a better local average.
Your Lot vs the Asbury Park Average
Asbury Park Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Asbury Park
- ●One soil character for all of Asbury Park
- ●Frost dates read at Asbury Park's scale: Mar 22 to Nov 24
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Asbury Park's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Asbury Park
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Asbury Park, New Jersey — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Asbury Park averages can't show:
We read public map data around Asbury Park — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Asbury Park average
How we know this about Asbury Park
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Asbury Park’s own record; boundaries and acreage from US Census TIGER/Line 2025; the contamination records from the federal sources named in their beats above. Soil is not read at city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-resolution survey in our data, which is why you will find no soil grid here rather than a statewide one wearing a local label. The resolution ledger below names every figure this page inherited.
Common questions about Asbury Park
When does frost risk typically end in Asbury Park?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Asbury Park typically lands around Mar 22, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — earlier than the light-frost dates most charts quote. That marks the hard freeze, not the last light frost — lighter frosts keep biting past it, which is why tender transplants here wait until about Apr 12.
When is the first frost in Asbury Park?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Asbury Park typically arrives around Nov 24, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 10, so the watching starts about Oct 25 — about 247 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Asbury Park?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Asbury Park sees about 247 frost-free days — roughly Mar 22 through Nov 24, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 12 to Nov 10, about 212 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Asbury Park?
The federal record around Asbury Park runs heavier than most — 1,382 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (984), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Asbury Park?
From about Oct 25 the job here turns from planting to protecting — the last start even a 30-day crop can finish. As the season closes around the first 28°F hard freeze near Nov 24 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals), three moves buy time: row cover or an old sheet over tender plants on still, clear nights; water the soil the afternoon before a freeze, so it holds warmth overnight; and harvest tomatoes, peppers and basil before Nov 24. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Asbury Park's scale — its 7b band and its 247-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Asbury Park's numbers: we read soil, sun, drainage and frost at your exact address. Try it for 14 days — no card required.
What this page reads at Asbury Park’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Asbury Park's own scale — its own ~247-day season between 28°F freezes, the 915 acres it covers and 1,382 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Asbury Park's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Asbury Park's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 22 and Nov 24 and the ~247-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,382 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Asbury Park, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Asbury Park's boundary and the 915 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~247-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Asbury Park's own centroid, the Atlantic Coastal Pine BarrensUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Asbury Parklydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Asbury Park's 915 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Monmouth County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Monmouth County
- The growing challenges every New Jersey grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom New Jersey
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Monmouth County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Asbury Park's 915 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Asbury Park you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 915 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out, measured from the town centrehow we read the record →
- Where cold air settles, which slopes face the sun, and which way the wind runs on your own ground — measured at your address, and averaged away by any Asbury Park-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across New JerseyAsbury Park sits outside our named growing regions, so New Jersey as a whole is its closest context here.
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