Isle of Palms, SC 29466 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Isle of Palms, SC?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/13, about 197 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/30, about 262 frost-free days later.
Zone 9a (20 to 25°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 Isle of Palms, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 13 weeks of growing season left in Isle of Palms before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Isle of Palms's last frost
03/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/19 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/30 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Isle of Palms compares
At roughly 262 frost-free days, Isle of Palms places 6,234 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within SC, it ranks 64 of 519.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Isle of Palms's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Isle of Palms can differ from the 29466 normal.