Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
These conditions suit cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Englewood Cliffs, 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 Englewood Cliffs lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Englewood Cliffs — the short answer
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: USDA zone 7b, about 252 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- 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 29
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~252
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 1K 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 Englewood Cliffs's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Englewood Cliffs's 252-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Englewood Cliffs
Each reading below is measured for Englewood Cliffs itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredEnglewood Cliffs runs about 252 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
MeasuredEnglewood Cliffs 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 Englewood Cliffs is in
Englewood Cliffs sits in the Northern Piedmont — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Englewood Cliffs's own centroid rather than borrowed from Bergen County.
What Grows in Englewood Cliffs
Every plant below cleared Englewood Cliffs's own zone 7b and its 252-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Jersey profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Englewood Cliffs?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. 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 29 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
Documented around Englewood Cliffs
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Englewood Cliffs, first recorded 2020. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Englewood Cliffs
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Englewood Cliffs. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- PRENTICE HALL INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS AMERICA- US HQ (700 SYLVAN)Brownfields · 1600 ft
- ENGLEWOOD CLIFF EXXON S/SUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- CPC INTERNATIONAL INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- CONOPCO DBA UNILEVERUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- HK PREMIER INCBrownfields · 2400 ft
- CONOCO PHILLIPS STATION FORMERUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- LUKOIL #57351Underground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- UNILEVER BESTFOODSBrownfields · 0.5 mi
- ON FIBER COMMUNICATIONS INC @ 1 CNBC PLAZABrownfields · 0.7 mi
- ST MICHAELS VILLAUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- ALCO CADILLACUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Englewood Cliffs'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 Englewood Cliffs.
Total Sites
11,055
within ~10 miles of Englewood Cliffs
Risk Level
High
Highest-severity
69 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Englewood Cliffs
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Englewood Cliffs
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
- •TRI facilities report what they release. Check the wind — downwind beds catch more of it.
Check your specific parcel in Englewood Cliffs
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Your land is one point inside Englewood Cliffs
Everything above resolves to Englewood Cliffs as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 town 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 Englewood Cliffs Average
Englewood Cliffs Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Englewood Cliffs
- ●One soil character for all of Englewood Cliffs
- ●Frost dates read at Englewood Cliffs's scale: Mar 22 to Nov 29
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Englewood Cliffs's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Englewood Cliffs
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Englewood Cliffs averages can't show:
We read public map data around Englewood Cliffs — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Englewood Cliffs average
How we know this about Englewood Cliffs
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this town’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Englewood Cliffs’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 town grain anywhere on this page — there is no town-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 Englewood Cliffs
When does frost risk typically end in Englewood Cliffs?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Englewood Cliffs 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 Englewood Cliffs?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Englewood Cliffs typically arrives around Nov 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 15, so the watching starts about Oct 30 — about 252 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Englewood Cliffs?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Englewood Cliffs sees about 252 frost-free days — roughly Mar 22 through Nov 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 12 to Nov 15, about 217 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Englewood Cliffs?
The federal record around Englewood Cliffs runs heavier than most — 11,055 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (6,284), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles 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 Englewood Cliffs?
From about Oct 30 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 29 (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 29. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Englewood Cliffs's scale — its 7b band and its 252-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Englewood Cliffs'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 Englewood Cliffs’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Englewood Cliffs's own scale — its own ~252-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,361 acres it covers and 11,055 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Englewood Cliffs's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Englewood Cliffs's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 22 and Nov 29 and the ~252-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 11,055 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Englewood Cliffs, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Englewood Cliffs's boundary and the 1,361 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~252-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Englewood Cliffs's own centroid, the Northern PiedmontUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Englewood Cliffslydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Englewood Cliffs's 1,361 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Bergen County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Bergen 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 Bergen County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Englewood Cliffs's 1,361 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Englewood Cliffs you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,361 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles 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 Englewood Cliffs-wide figureread your own land →