Gainesville, GA 30506 Frost Dates
30506, near Gainesville, GA: the frost window
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.
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 Gainesville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Gainesville's growing season runs out in roughly 11 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 Gainesville's last frost
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
At roughly 231 frost-free days, Gainesville places 10,134 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within GA, it ranks 541 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 30506: the frost range, on how to read the range around Gainesville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Gainesville can differ from the 30506 normal.