Snellville, GA 30039 Frost Dates
Snellville, GA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/25, roughly 209 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/09, roughly 228 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 Snellville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Snellville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Snellville against the rest of the dataset
About 228 days separate Snellville's last and first frost, putting it 10,745 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within GA, it ranks 601 of 921.
Learn more
Before leaning on 30039's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Snellville's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Snellville's dates instead of trusting one.