Travelers Rest, SC 29683 Frost Dates
Travelers Rest, SC: when does the frost end?
Around 04/09 is the usual last spring frost, about 224 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 205 days after the last spring frost.
Travelers Rest sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 9 weeks until Travelers Rest's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/09 isn't a guarantee
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Travelers Rest against the rest of the dataset
Travelers Rest's growing season runs about 205 days, ranking 16,211 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within SC, it ranks 491 of 519.
Learn more
Before leaning on 29683's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Travelers Rest can differ from the 29683 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Travelers Rest's frost date answer different questions.