Cheltenham Village, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
The conditions favor cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Cheltenham Village, 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 Cheltenham Village lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Cheltenham Village — the short answer
Cheltenham Village, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 7b, about 243 days between hard freezes, across 141 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 21
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~243
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 141 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 Cheltenham Village's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Cheltenham Village's 243-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Cheltenham Village
Each reading below is measured for Cheltenham Village itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredCheltenham Village runs about 243 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
MeasuredCheltenham Village 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 Cheltenham Village is in
Cheltenham Village sits in the Northern Piedmont — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Cheltenham Village's own centroid rather than borrowed from Montgomery County.
What Grows in Cheltenham Village
Every plant below cleared Cheltenham Village's own zone 7b and its 243-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Cheltenham Village?
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 21 — 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 Cheltenham Village
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Cheltenham Village, first recorded 2018. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Cheltenham Village
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Cheltenham Village. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CHELTENHAM FIRE COUnderground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- CHELTENHAM BANKUnderground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- H H FLUORESCENT PARTS INCToxics Release Inventory · 1200 ft
- HH FLUORESCENT PARTS INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- PH 715Nitrate · 1300 ft
- TOOKANY PARK AUTO SERVICE INCBrownfields · 1400 ft
- FRANCIS A MONTGOMERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- WORDSWORTH HUMAN SVCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- COLLEX COLLISION EXPERTS/CHELTENHAMBrownfields · 1900 ft
- THACKRAY CRANE RENTALUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- EXECUTIVE AUTO PAINTING & BODYBrownfields · 2100 ft
- T Z TRANSMISSIONBrownfields · 2100 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Cheltenham Village'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 Cheltenham Village.
Total Sites
5,915
within ~10 miles of Cheltenham Village
Risk Level
High
Highest-severity
98 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Cheltenham Village
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Cheltenham Village
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Cheltenham Village, Superfund runs higher than the national average — 98 sites within ~10 miles of Cheltenham Village. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Cheltenham Village
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 Cheltenham Village average
Your land is one point inside Cheltenham Village
Everything above resolves to Cheltenham Village as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 141 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 Cheltenham Village Average
Cheltenham Village Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Cheltenham Village
- ●One soil character for all of Cheltenham Village
- ●Frost dates read at Cheltenham Village's scale: Mar 23 to Nov 21
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Cheltenham Village's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Cheltenham Village
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Cheltenham Village, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Cheltenham Village averages can't show:
We read public map data around Cheltenham Village — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Cheltenham Village average
How we know this about Cheltenham Village
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 Cheltenham Village’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 Cheltenham Village
When does frost risk typically end in Cheltenham Village?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Cheltenham Village 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 Cheltenham Village?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Cheltenham Village typically arrives around Nov 21, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 7, so the watching starts about Oct 22 — about 243 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Cheltenham Village?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Cheltenham Village sees about 243 frost-free days — roughly Mar 23 through Nov 21, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 13 to Nov 7, about 208 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Cheltenham Village?
The federal record around Cheltenham Village runs heavier than most — 5,915 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (2,953), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Cheltenham Village?
From about Oct 22 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 21 (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 21. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Cheltenham Village's scale — its 7b band and its 243-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Cheltenham Village'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 Cheltenham Village’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Cheltenham Village's own scale — its own ~243-day season between 28°F freezes, the 141 acres it covers and 5,915 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Cheltenham Village's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Cheltenham Village's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 23 and Nov 21 and the ~243-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 5,915 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Cheltenham Village, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Cheltenham Village's boundary and the 141 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~243-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Cheltenham Village's own centroid, the Northern PiedmontUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Cheltenham Villagelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Cheltenham Village's 141 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Montgomery County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Montgomery County
- The growing challenges every Pennsylvania grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Pennsylvania
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Montgomery County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Cheltenham Village's 141 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Cheltenham Village you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 141 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Cheltenham Village-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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