Greenville, SC 29601 Frost Dates
29601, near Greenville, SC: the frost window
Around 03/16 is the usual last spring frost, about 200 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/20, roughly 250 days after the last spring frost.
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 Greenville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Greenville'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.
The actual range around Greenville's last frost
03/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Greenville against the rest of the dataset
Greenville's growing season runs about 250 days, ranking 7,426 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within SC, it ranks 105 of 519.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 29601: local microclimates, on what one yard in Greenville can differ from the 29601 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Greenville's frost date answer different questions.