Greensboro, NC 27402 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Greensboro, NC, ZIP 27402
Around 04/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 216 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/04, about 217 frost-free days later.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Greensboro, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8a around Greensboro has about 10 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/18 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/14 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Greensboro compares
At roughly 217 frost-free days, Greensboro places 13,368 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 643 of 1,078.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Greensboro's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Greensboro can differ from the 27402 normal.