College Park, GA 30349 Frost Dates
30349, near College Park, GA: the frost window
Around 03/15 is the usual last spring frost, about 199 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/20, roughly 252 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 College Park, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
College Park's growing season runs out in roughly 12 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around College Park's last frost
03/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
College Park against the rest of the dataset
About 252 days separate College Park's last and first frost, putting it 7,216 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within GA, it ranks 253 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 30349: the frost range, on how to read the range around College Park's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in College Park can differ from the 30349 normal.