Duluth, GA 30026 Frost Dates
Duluth, GA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/25, about 209 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/09, roughly 228 days after the last spring frost.
Duluth 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 10 weeks until Duluth's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Duluth's last frost
03/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Duluth against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 228 frost-free days, Duluth places 10,721 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 580 of 921.
Learn more
Before leaning on 30026's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Duluth's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Duluth can differ from the 30026 normal.