St. Matthews, SC 29135 Frost Dates
St. Matthews, SC: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/13, roughly 197 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/15, roughly 249 days after the last spring frost.
St. Matthews sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°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
With roughly 11 weeks until St. Matthews's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around St. Matthews's last frost
03/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
St. Matthews against the rest of the dataset
About 249 days separate St. Matthews's last and first frost, putting it 7,638 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within SC, it ranks 139 of 519.
Learn more
Before leaning on 29135's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and St. Matthews's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around St. Matthews's dates instead of trusting one.