Darlington, SC 29532 Frost Dates
29532, near Darlington, SC: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/30, roughly 214 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/06, roughly 221 days after the last spring frost.
Darlington 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
Darlington's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Darlington's last frost
03/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Darlington against the rest of the dataset
Darlington's growing season runs about 221 days, ranking 12,493 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within SC, it ranks 421 of 519.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 29532: local microclimates, on what one yard in Darlington can differ from the 29532 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Darlington's frost date answer different questions.