Elizabeth City, NC 27906 Frost Dates
27906, near Elizabeth City, NC: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/27, roughly 211 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/17, roughly 238 days after the last spring frost.
Elizabeth City sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Elizabeth City's growing season runs out in roughly 12 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/07 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Elizabeth City against the rest of the dataset
About 238 days separate Elizabeth City's last and first frost, putting it 8,946 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NC, it ranks 98 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 27906: the frost range, on how to read the range around Elizabeth City's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Elizabeth City can differ from the 27906 normal.