Temple, GA 30179 Frost Dates
Temple, GA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/28, about 212 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 222 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 Temple, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Temple's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Temple's last frost
03/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/07 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.
Temple against the rest of the dataset
Temple's growing season runs about 222 days, ranking 12,248 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within GA, it ranks 713 of 921.
Learn more
Before leaning on 30179's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Temple can differ from the 30179 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Temple's frost date answer different questions.