Gainesville, GA 30504 Frost Dates
Gainesville, GA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/27, about 211 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 231 days after the last spring frost.
Gainesville 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 11 weeks until Gainesville'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
03/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Gainesville against the rest of the dataset
Gainesville's growing season runs about 231 days, ranking 10,133 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within GA, it ranks 540 of 921.
Learn more
Before leaning on 30504's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Gainesville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Gainesville can differ from the 30504 normal.