Greenville, SC 29602 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Greenville, SC?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/16, roughly 200 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/20, about 250 frost-free days later.
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.
What to do before the first frost
About 12 weeks of growing season left in Greenville before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Greenville's last frost
03/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/26 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/02 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Greenville compares
About 250 days separate Greenville's last and first frost, putting it 7,427 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within SC, it ranks 106 of 519.
Learn more
local microclimates covers what one yard in Greenville can differ from the 29602 normal. zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 8a and Greenville's frost date answer different questions.