Sea Bright, New Jersey, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
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 Sea Bright, 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 Sea Bright lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Sea Bright — the short answer
Sea Bright, New Jersey: USDA zone 7b, about 254 days between hard freezes, across 461 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 21
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 30
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~254
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 461 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 Sea Bright's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Sea Bright's 254-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Sea Bright
Each reading below is measured for Sea Bright itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredSea Bright runs about 254 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
MeasuredSea Bright 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 Sea Bright is in
Sea Bright sits in the Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Sea Bright's own centroid rather than borrowed from Monmouth County.
What Grows in Sea Bright
Every plant below cleared Sea Bright's own zone 7b and its 254-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Jersey profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Sea Bright?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 21; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 21 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 30 — 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 Sea Bright
Spotted lanternfly documented 1 miles from Sea Bright, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Sea Bright
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Sea Bright. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- ALLIED BUILDING PRODUCTSUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- 1136 OCEAN AVENUEUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- SEA BRIGHT BORO MUNICIPALUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- THE CLAYTON PROPERTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- TRADE WINDS NIGHT CLUBUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- SURFSIDE MARINAUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- MAIN PUMP STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- SUNOCO 04844106Underground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- SEA BRIGHT SERVICE CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- SEA BRIGHT BEACH CLUB INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- NAVESINK MARINAUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- SEABRIGHT LAWN TENNIS CLUBUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Sea Bright'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 Sea Bright.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Sea Bright
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Sea Bright
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Sea Bright, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 624 sites within ~10 miles of Sea Bright. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Sea Bright
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 Sea Bright average
Your land is one point inside Sea Bright
Everything above resolves to Sea Bright as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 461 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 Sea Bright Average
Sea Bright Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Sea Bright
- ●One soil character for all of Sea Bright
- ●Frost dates read at Sea Bright's scale: Mar 21 to Nov 30
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Sea Bright's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Sea Bright
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Sea Bright, New Jersey — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Sea Bright averages can't show:
We read public map data around Sea Bright — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Sea Bright average
How we know this about Sea Bright
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 Sea Bright’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 Sea Bright
When does frost risk typically end in Sea Bright?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Sea Bright typically lands around Mar 21, 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 11.
When is the first frost in Sea Bright?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Sea Bright typically arrives around Nov 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 16, so the watching starts about Oct 31 — about 254 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Sea Bright?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Sea Bright sees about 254 frost-free days — roughly Mar 21 through Nov 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 11 to Nov 16, about 219 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Sea Bright?
The federal record around Sea Bright is a meaningful one — 867 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (624), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Sea Bright?
From about Oct 31 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 30 (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 30. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Sea Bright's scale — its 7b band and its 254-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Sea Bright'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 Sea Bright’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Sea Bright's own scale — its own ~254-day season between 28°F freezes, the 461 acres it covers and 867 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Sea Bright's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Sea Bright's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 21 and Nov 30 and the ~254-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 867 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Sea Bright, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Sea Bright's boundary and the 461 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~254-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Sea Bright's own centroid, the Atlantic Coastal Pine BarrensUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Sea Brightlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Sea Bright's 461 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 Sea Bright's 461 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Sea Bright you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 461 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 Sea Bright-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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