Canton, GA 30146 Frost Dates
Canton, GA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/31, about 215 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 221 days after the last spring frost.
Canton 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 Canton's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Canton's last frost
03/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Canton against the rest of the dataset
About 221 days separate Canton's last and first frost, putting it 12,444 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within GA, it ranks 727 of 921.
Learn more
Before leaning on 30146's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Canton can differ from the 30146 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Canton's frost date answer different questions.