Clayton, GA 30525 Frost Dates
30525, near Clayton, GA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/10, roughly 225 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/29, roughly 203 days after the last spring frost.
Clayton sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°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
Clayton's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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
04/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Clayton against the rest of the dataset
Clayton's growing season runs about 203 days, ranking 16,938 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within GA, it ranks 887 of 921.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 30525: local microclimates, on what one yard in Clayton can differ from the 30525 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Clayton's frost date answer different questions.