Monmouth Beach, New Jersey, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Monmouth Beach, 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 Monmouth Beach lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Monmouth Beach — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Monmouth Beach — the short answer
Monmouth Beach, New Jersey: USDA zone 7b, about 247 days between hard freezes, across 667 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 23
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 25
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~247
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 667 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 Monmouth Beach's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Monmouth Beach's 247-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Monmouth Beach
Each reading below is measured for Monmouth Beach itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMonmouth Beach 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
MeasuredMonmouth Beach 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 Monmouth Beach is in
Monmouth Beach sits in the Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Monmouth Beach's own centroid rather than borrowed from Monmouth County.
What Grows in Monmouth Beach
Every plant below cleared Monmouth Beach'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 Monmouth Beach?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 23; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 23 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 25 — 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 Monmouth Beach
Spotted lanternfly documented 2 miles from Monmouth Beach, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Monmouth Beach
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Monmouth Beach. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CHANNEL CLUB MARINAUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- TWO RIVERS WATER RECLAMATION AUTHORITYBrownfields · 1700 ft
- PLEASURE BAY CROSSING & MAIN PUMP STATIONBrownfields · 1800 ft
- NORTHEAST MONMOUTH CO REG S AUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- PETERSON ENTERPRISES INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- WESTONS MARINAUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- NJ STATE MARINE POLICE STATION (FORMER)Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- LEMCO ASSOCIATES INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- 56939 MONMOUTH FUELSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- PLEASURE BAY YACHT BASIN INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- NAVESINK MARINAUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- ATLANTIC GULF SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Monmouth Beach'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 Monmouth Beach.
Total Sites
1,041
within ~10 miles of Monmouth Beach
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
14 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Monmouth Beach
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Monmouth Beach
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Monmouth Beach, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Monmouth Beach — Underground Storage Tanks (740 sites) and Superfund (14 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Monmouth Beach
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 Monmouth Beach average
Your land is one point inside Monmouth Beach
Everything above resolves to Monmouth Beach as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 667 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 Monmouth Beach Average
Monmouth Beach Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Monmouth Beach
- ●One soil character for all of Monmouth Beach
- ●Frost dates read at Monmouth Beach's scale: Mar 23 to Nov 25
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Monmouth Beach's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Monmouth Beach
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Monmouth Beach, New Jersey — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Monmouth Beach averages can't show:
We read public map data around Monmouth Beach — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Monmouth Beach average
How we know this about Monmouth Beach
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 Monmouth Beach’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 Monmouth Beach
When does frost risk typically end in Monmouth Beach?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Monmouth Beach typically lands around Mar 23, 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 13.
When is the first frost in Monmouth Beach?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Monmouth Beach typically arrives around Nov 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 11, so the watching starts about Oct 26 — about 247 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Monmouth Beach?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Monmouth Beach sees about 247 frost-free days — roughly Mar 23 through Nov 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 13 to Nov 11, about 212 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Monmouth Beach?
The federal record around Monmouth Beach is a meaningful one — 1,041 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (740), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out — so a soil test before new food beds is a sensible precaution here, not a reason to hold back from growing. Remember that proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what sits where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Monmouth Beach?
From about Oct 26 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 25 (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 25. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Monmouth Beach's scale — its 7b band and its 247-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Monmouth Beach'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 Monmouth Beach’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Monmouth Beach's own scale — its own ~247-day season between 28°F freezes, the 667 acres it covers and 1,041 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Monmouth Beach's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Monmouth Beach's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 23 and Nov 25 and the ~247-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,041 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Monmouth Beach, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Monmouth Beach's boundary and the 667 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 Monmouth Beach's own centroid, the Atlantic Coastal Pine BarrensUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Monmouth Beachlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Monmouth Beach's 667 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 Monmouth Beach's 667 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Monmouth Beach you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 667 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Monmouth Beach-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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