Smyrna, GA 30325 Frost Dates
30325, near Smyrna, GA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/24, about 208 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 231 days after the last spring frost.
Smyrna 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
Smyrna's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Smyrna against the rest of the dataset
About 231 days separate Smyrna's last and first frost, putting it 10,095 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within GA, it ranks 502 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 30325: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Smyrna's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Smyrna's dates instead of trusting one.